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A subscandent shrub, with slender terete woody glabrous 

 branchlets, bristly only at the young tips. Leaves moderately 

 firm in texture, l|-2 in. long and broad, bluntly cuspidate, entire, 

 broadly rounded at the base, glabrous except a few minute 

 bristles on the midrib beneath. Male flowers not seen. Female 

 flowers in sessile axillary deltoid panicles about an inch long, 

 with a few spreading slender slightly bristly spicate branches. 

 Fruit glabrous, oblique ovoid, y 1 ^ in. long, crowned with a large 

 orbicular sessile stigma. — Baron 3179 ! Nearly allied to the 

 Mauritian JJ. acuminata, Graudich. 



PlLEA CAPITATA, n. Sp. 



Herbacea, perennis, inermis, dioica, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis 

 valde inaequalibus oblongis acutis serratis, floribus in capitulos axillares 

 longe pedunculatos dispositis, perianthio masculo tubo campanulato seg- 

 ments 4 parvis deltoideis, perianthii fceminei segmentis valde inaiqualibus, 

 fructu ovoideo compresso acute marginato. 



An erect herbaceous perennial, with simple glabrous unarmed 

 stems under a foot long. Leaves in opposite pairs, shortly 

 petioled, very unequal in size, moderately firm in texture, di- 

 stinctly serrated, triplinerved from base to apex, green and 

 slightly hispid on both surfaces, the larger ones 1^-2 in., the 

 smaller \-\ in. long. Flowers of both sexes in dense capitate 

 cymes on long axillary ascending peduncles. Male perianth 

 -^ in. long, gamophyllous, with 4 small deltoid segments. Fruit 

 T*2 in. long, brown, flat, glabrous, not at all oblique, tipped with a 

 minute capitate stigma. — Baron 2528! 2621! Belongs to the 

 small section Heterophylhe, of which only two Old- World species 

 are already known. 



PlLEA LONGIPES, n. Sp. 



Herbacea, perennis, inermis, dioica, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis rcquali- 

 bus serratis triplinerviis, floribus in paniculos cymosos longe peduncu- 

 latos axillares dispositis, perianthio masculo tubo gamophyllo camuanu- 

 lato, segmentis 4 parvis deltoideis. 



An erect unarmed herbaceous perennial with much-branched 

 stems under a foot long. Leaves moderately firm in texture, 

 l-l£ in. long, triplinerved from base to apex, subobtuse, di- 

 stinctly serrated, rounded at the base, obscurely hispid on both 

 sides ; petiole |-| in. long. Male cymes corymbose at the tip of 

 a long peduncle ascending from the axils of the upper leaves. 

 Male perianth T \ in. long, with a eampanulnte tube and 4 small 



