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Planta glaberrima. Ramuli novelli pallide virides. Folia 
oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, basi obtusa vel subaeuta, apice 
acuminata, margine plerumque magis minusve serrata vel crenato- 
serrata, ad 8 poll. longa, ad 3 poll. lata, subcoriacea, pallide 
viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 7-10, venarum reticulatione 
subtus laxa, supra plerumque aretiore ; petiolus ad 1 poll. longus. 
Panicule ad 33 poll. longs, fere a basi ramos; rami infimis 
exceptis 4 poll. vix excedentes; bracteæ parve, ovate, sub- 
scariose ; pedicelli brevissimi. Sepala rotundato-ovata, interiora 
ad 13 lin. longa, ciliolata, prominenter nervosa. Petala oblonga, 
2 lin. longa. Staminum tubus brevis, truncatus, utrinque glaber ; 
authere in tubi margine sessiles, eum connectivi appendice 
exteriore ovato 1 lin. longæ, appendiculo interiore rhomboideo 
cochleariformi. 
Within 6 miles of Monrovia, Whyte. 
Engler (in Bot. Jahrb. xxxiii. p. 140) enumerates Zenkers 
no. 1778 from Bipinde under Alsodeia kamerunensis, Engl., 
which is described as having a 5-lobed staminal tube with 
broad, deltoid, truncate lobes. The specimen at Kew from 
Zenker’s collection, no. 1778, has a staminal tube very like that 
of A. prasina, and it also resembles it in other respects; but it 
differs in the nerves of the sepals not being raised and the 
hairiness of the inner side of the staminal tube and the edges of 
the bases of the thecæ. 
Alsodeia Whytei, Stapf (sp. nov.) ; affinis A. brachypetale, 
Turez., sed foliis minoribus, petiolis brevioribus tenujoribus, 
inflorescentiæ pubescentia tenuissima, antherarum thecis obscure 
mueronatis, connectivi appendice latiore acuto differt. 
Ramuli pallide virides, minute puberuli vel elabri. Folia 
lanceolata vel elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, basi subaeuta, 
margine magis minusve serrulata, 2-4 poll. longa, 14-2 poll. 
lata, tenuia, utrinque glabra vel inferne in dorso sparse puberula, 
pallide viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-9 uti venis tenuibus ; 
petiolus gracilis, 4-9 lin. longus. Paniewle 12 poll. longe, 
pubescentes, breviter ramos» ; bracteæ ovate vel lanceolate, ad 
1 lin. longe; pedicelli ad 14 lin. longi. Sepala late ovata, 
interiora ad 1j lin. longa, tenuiter pubescentia, margine albido- 
ciliolato. Petala anguste ovato-oblonga, 2 lin. longa. Staminum 
tubus brevis, truncatus; anthere in tubi margine sessiles, cum 
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