TLOWEB IN THE GENUS KAPOLEOKA, ETC. 497 



Such is a general description drawn up on tlie examination of 

 the living plant, and comprising only the more important points 

 and such a.s offer points of contrast with dried specimens. I 

 have only to add that the fresh flowers have a slightly acid odour, 

 and that their duration is very short. 



Before proceeding to show in what points the plant just 

 mentioned differs from those which have been described by various 

 authors, I will give briefly the results of my examination of the 

 specimens in the herbarium at Kew from the various collectors 

 before alluded to, taking them in chronological order. Heudelot*s 

 specimen is too imperfect to allow of satisfactory examination. 

 Its leaves correspond w^ell with those of the living plant; it has a 

 single unexpanded flower placed in the axil of one of the leaves. 

 This is the plant which Jussieu made the type of his species 

 iV^ HeudelotiL 



Whitfield's dried specimens correspond in all respects, as far 

 can be ascertained, with the living plant in the gardens. Jts 

 flowers are of a deeper colour than most of the others. 



Vogel's specimens have smaller and more ovate leaves, and the 

 flowers are smaller and of a paler colour. Planchon describes the 

 anthers as ten in number; as in the preceding, the flowers are 

 solitary and axillary. 



Barter's illustrations have elliptical leaves four to five inches 

 long; the flowers are solitary, or sometimes in threes, and, as the 

 collector says in a note, " very variable in colour, sometimes red, 

 at other times nearly white." The flowers are hardly more than 

 half the size of those of the Kew plant, corresponding in this 

 respect with those of Vogel. The first row of the corona consists 

 of about seventy linear-lanceolate segments, all uniform in size. 

 The sterile filaments are roimded at the end. As the flowers had 

 been much injured by insects before they were gathered, it is not 

 possible to make out clearly the structure of the inner portions. 



The specimens gathered by Mann in Old Calabar have large 

 lanceolate leaves, seven to eight inches long, tapering at the base, 

 acuminate at the apex. The flowers are in axillary clusters of 

 three or fo\ir, the sepals are glandular at the margins, the corolla 

 is similar to that in the Kew plant in size and appearance, but is 

 much paler in colour. The first row of the corona consists of a 

 number of lancet-pointed segments, all about equal in size and 

 shape ; they have at the base on their inner surface a slight fold, 

 indicating, perhaps, the existence of an anther in that situation. 

 The second row of the corona corresponds in all important parti- 



