44 PltOF. ()iaVE:R ON THREE NEW WEST-ArillCAN PLANTS. 



vol glubrcscentia, 3-9 poll, longa, 1:J-2| poll, lata, pctiolo strigilloso 



1-2 lin. longo. Injlorescentia strigilloso-hirta, "J-ll P^^l* longa 



Flares circiter 1 ^ lin. longi. Fructus (exsicc.) poll, longus, j-poll. 



latus. 



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Mount John, River Kongui (no. 1805), G. Mann ! 



There are specimens of two forms of this plant in the Kew 

 Herbarium (those with smaller leaves, without locality indicated); 

 I cannot distinguish them specifically. Their general facies is 

 so much that of some species of Alsodeia tliat Mr. Black had pro- 

 visionally referred them to that genus. The structure of the seed 

 appears to me very similar to that of Sarcostigma, in which, 

 moreover, the cotyledons are connate for the greater part of their 

 length. 



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Camptlostemon, Welwitsch MS., genus novum Celastracearum. 



Plofes hermaphroditi. Calys 5-partitus, lobis ovato-rotundatia 

 leviter imbricatis. l?etala 5, sessilia, sepalis multo lorigiora, 

 patentia, oblongo-elliptica, eestivatione imbricata. Sfamna 

 5, in disco annulato minuto ovarii basin cingente inserta, 

 incurva, filamentis lineari-subulatis, antheris parvis introrsis, 

 quadrilocellatia, transversim dehiscentibus. Ovarium lihe- 

 rum, basi latiusculum, glabrum, triloculare ; stigma trifiduiD) 

 lobis sessilibus minutis ovoideis ; ovula circiter 8 in utroque 

 loculo, biseriata. Fructum nou vidi. — Frutex {fide sched. 

 Welwitsch.) alte scandens, glaber* Folia opposita, petiolata, 

 membranacea, oblongo-elliptica vel ovalia, acuminata, reuio- 

 tiuscule serrulata. Florcs sulphurei, in cymis axillaribus 

 multifloris pedunculatis folio multo brevioribus dispositi. 



C. Angolense. Folia 2-3^ poll, longa, f-l| poll, lata, interdum 

 ovato-lanceolata ; petiolus gracilis, | poll, longus. Floras dianietro 

 circiter 2^ lin. 



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Trov. Cazengo, Angola^ Dr, Welwitsch ! 



Camptlostemon serves to strengthen the already intimate 

 connexion between Celastrese and Hippocrateae. Its pentan- 

 drous flowers and introrse anthers ally it to the former, while 

 the structure and mode of dehiscence of the iinlhers, together 

 with the numerous ovules and seandent habit, favour an a&^w 

 with the latter. 



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