480 Mlt. J. G- BAKER Oy THE 



A fragile annual, with a slender rootatock and very tliin leaves. 

 Petiole |-1| in. long; leaves usually two ; blade 4-G in. broad. 

 Peduncle |-1 ft. long, stiflay erect, slender, fragile. Cyme 

 dicliotomously forked, dense or rather lax ; male flowers much 

 more numerous than femr.le. Perianth-segments reddish, ^ in. 

 long and broad. Anthers obtusely apiculate, ^ in. long, three 

 times as long as the free filaments. Ovary i in. long ; wings at 

 most I in. broad, confluent at the base of the ovary. — Baron 4677 ! 

 Near B, nossibfea, A. DC. 



Begoxia Baroxi, n. sp. 



Perennis, glabra, canle elongato robusto ramose, foliis magnis membra- 

 naceis insequilateraHter cordato-orbicularibus serratis, cymis laxissimis 

 magnis dichotomiter ramosis, fructu trialato ala unica reliquis 3^plo 

 latiori. 



Stem smooth, straight, woody, |-]^ in. in diam. Leaves 6-8 in. 

 long and nearly as broad, green, membranous, rounded on one 

 side at the base, deeply cordate on the other. Cymes in the 

 fruiting stage 8-9 in. in diam. Flowers not seen. Capsule 3- 

 celled, oblong, ^^in. long; wings thin but firm in texture, flexible, 

 horizontally ribbed ; one wing oblong, obtuse, 1-1| in. broad, 

 the two others |-^ in. hToad..--Baron 4353 ! Allied probably to 

 B, Lyallii, A. DC. 



Pais-ax (§ Sph3:ropanax) gomph<)Phxlla,ii. sp. 



Ar])orea, glabra, fohis magnis bipinnatis foHohs obovato-cuneatis cus- 

 pidutis subcoriaceis integris, paiuculse rhachi valida bipedali, ramis simpli- 

 citer umbellatis, pedunculis brevlbus arcuatis, pedicellis brevissimis apice 

 articulatis, ovario ovoideo pentamero, stylis 5 subulatis patulis. 



A tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves with a stout rhachis 

 2 feet long, with several distant pinn^ ; leaflets 2-3 in. long, 

 1-1^ in. broad at the middle, firm in texture, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces, with the main veins beneath fine and hardly at 

 all raised. Panicle with a stout straight woody axis 2 ft. long ; 

 peduncles slender, 1-1| in, long; flowers a dozen or more in an 

 umbel ; pedicels I in. long. Ovary pentagonal, glabrous, ^ in. 

 long, crowned by the creuate calyx-limb. Styles ^- line long. 

 Baron 3793 I 



MOKOPETAL^. 

 SCHISMATOCLADA TEICHOLAUYNX, n. sp. 



Arborea, glabra, stipulis deltoideis, foliis oblanceolato-oblongis fecutis 

 brevissime petiolatis, floribus in c} mas multifloras termiaales dispositis, 



