SIGNOR T. CARUEL ON COMBRETUM BUTYROSUM. 167 
with the most valuable characters by which they are distinguished 
from each other and from their allies. 
I have seen F. muralis from Barnes, Surrey (Mr. Pamplin) ; 
Shrewsbury, Salop; Wrexham, Denbighshire (J. E. Bowman) ;. 
Sheffield (Rev. W. W. Newbould). 
Having now characterized all our species belonging to the 
group called Capreolate, it may be well to add a similar notice of 
the true F. capreolata (Linn.), derived from specimens received 
from several parts of the South of Europe, and especially from 
some gathered by Mr. Sonder at Montpellier, in the place pointed 
out by DeCandolle. 
F. cAPREOLATA (Linn.): sepalis ovatis basi dentatis tubi corolle lati- 
tudine latioribus eodemque duplo brevioribus, fructibus obovato-com- 
pressis obtusis parvis longioribus quam latis levibus, basi fructus lata 
obconica pedicelli apicem sequante, bracteis pedicellis floriferis et 
Sructiferis reflexis brevioribus, racemis evolutis laxis brevibus pauci- 
floris. 
F. capreolata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 985. DeCand. Syst. ii. 133; Fl. Fr. iv. 
639; Prod. i. 130. 
F. speciosa, Jord. “ Cat. Gren. 1849; 15;" in Schultz, Arch. 199; in 
Walp. Ann. Bot. ii. 28. Lloyd, Fl. Ouest, 24. Вог. Fl. Cent. ii. 34. 
Sepals persistent, often even found with the fruit, usually entire 
in their upper half. Cor. very large, white, tipped with brown- 
black. -Fruit half as large as that of F. pallidiffora. Base of the 
fruit not nearly so broad as the fruit and narrowing downwards 
to its point of attachment. The whole fresh fruit is rather pyri- 
form, quite smooth ; its apical pits conspicuous. 
On Combretum butyrosum, a new land of Butter-tree from South- 
eastern Africa. Ву T. Carvert of Florence. Communicated 
by J. D. Ноокев, M.D., F.R.S. & L.S. 
(Read Nov. 17th, 1859.] 
SEVERAL years ago Professor Joseph Bertoloni published an ac- 
count of a kind of vegetable butter, which he had received from 
South-eastern Africa together with dried specimens of the tree 
that produced it. This tree Professor Bertoloni considered as 
belonging to a new genus, which he consequently described under 
the name of Sheadendron, and called the plant S. butyrosum, from 
an idea that it was the same as the celebrated Shea-tree men- 
tioned by Mungo Park. According to him, the Sheadendron could 
