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tuso. Legvmen -. — Arbor Africse Occidentalis, Symena0 



facie. Polia hifoliolata^foliolis S-S-nerviis, Paniculae termi- 

 notes ; floribus in ramulis ultimis a/pproximatis^ sessilibuSf 

 inconspicuis . 



This new genus belongs to the Suborder Ccesa^ine^, and is 

 evidently very nearly related on the one hand to Copaifera and 

 Oynometra, and on the other to Symenmay Trachylohivm and 

 Peltogyne. It differs from the three latter genera in the total 

 absence of petals, in the complete suppression of the 'tube of the 

 calyx, and in its closely approximated sessile flowers. In these 

 particulars it approaches Copaifera, from which it is technically 

 scarcely to be distinguished by any other character than the 

 femarfeable biie of its two laree nersistent lateral bractese, and by 



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ed peculiarity is, however 

 found in one or two species of Copaifera. It thus forms a connect 

 ing link between Symencea and its subdivisions on the one hand 



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and Copaifera and Cynometra on the other. As one of the 

 producing a valuable kind of Copal, it cannot be more appropri- 

 ately dedicated than to the learned Pharmacologist to whom we 

 are indebted for so many elaborate investigations into the ongin 

 and history of substances used in Medicine and the Arts. 



GriBOITETIA COPALLIPEEA, iBenn, 



Sahitat in Africd Tropic& OccidentaK, apud " Goderich" et " Lumley." 

 Deser. Arbor, com4 ut videtur dens& ; ramulis idtimis molliter pilosiusculis> 

 densfe foliatis. Folia petiolo vix semiunciali crassiusculo insidentia, bifo- 

 liolata ; foliolis sessilibus, falcato-semioboyatis, latere interiori pliis miBUS 



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concavo, acumine brevi obtuso plenimque terminatis, glaberrimis, conaceis, 

 pleramque opacis sed aliquandd evidenter pellucido-punctatiB, a basi 3- vel 

 rariiis B-nerviis, nervis venisque crebris subttis prominentibus reticulatis. 

 Inflorescentia terminalis, e spicie nvunerosis in paniculam brevem densam 

 dispositis. Spicee, vel paniculee ramuli, 1- 2-pollicaree ; rachibus crassius- 

 culis, velutino-tomentosis. Flores sessiles, approximati ; jimiores bractea 

 subtendente concav4, ovatA, acutd, velutino-tomentos^ margine ciliata, 

 alabastro longiore, citb caducA, stipati et occlusi. Calyx bibracteatus, 

 bracteis lateralibus coriaceis, subrotundis vel tnmcatis, nervo carmatis, 

 glabriusculis, alabastro ovali quadruple brevioribus, persistentibus. o®* 

 pala 4, 2 posteriora nempfe in unicum coaliia; sestivatione imbncata, 

 anticum scilicet oinnin6 exterius, alterumque e lateralibus onmino 

 (carin& exceptfi.) interius ; coriaeea, snbeequnonga, latitudine inflequaha, 

 subovalia, obtusa, glabra, pellucido-punctata, decidua. Petala nulla. 

 , Ptfl^^dna 10, onmin6 libera, sequalia, disco inconspicuo in calycis fundo 

 breviter piloso inserta ; filamentis in sestivatione medio inflexis, flore 

 aperto sepalis dupld longioribus, exsertis. Anther© omnes fertiles, sub- 

 aequales, lineari-oblongse, versatiles. Ovarium e basi attenuatA inceqoi' 





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