Tas. 5318. 
PALISOTA BARTERI. 
Mr. Barter’s Palisota. 
Nat. Ord. CoMMELYNE.®.—TRIANDRIA MonoGynlia. 
Gen. Char. Flores subirregulares. Sepala ovata, obtusa, impari parum majore. 
Petala sessilia, sepalis subsimilia iisque paulo longiora. Stamina Jertilia 3, 
petalis opposita, difformia; duo brevia, filamentis filiformibus, anthera oblonga 
vix longioribus ; tertium longius, filamento crasso, anthera ovata pluries longiore ; 
slerilia 2 (v. rarius 3), brevia, ananthera, pilis longis articulatis dense barbata. 
Ovarium sessile, 3-loculare, loculis biseriatim 5-6-ovulatis. Stylus apice sim- 
plex, subpenicillato-stigmatosus. Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 544. 
Paztisota Barteri; acaulis, foliis omnibus radicalibus petiolatis oblongo- v. 
obovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis integerrimis subsericeo-pilosis margini- 
bus villosis, racemo brevi ovoideo densifloro. 
P. Barteri. Tad. nostr. 
One of the many discoveries of the lamented Mr. Barter, the 
indefatigable and most successful botanist to Dr. Baikie’s Niger 
Expedition. ‘The first specimens we received were found by 
Barter in a grove of oil-palms (A/eis guineensis) Fernando Po, 
and it has since been gathered in the same place by M. Gustav 
Mann (collector for the Royal Gardens), from whom living plants 
were received. Both collectors describe the flower as white, which 
with us have a decidedly faint purple tinge. 8 
The only other known species of Palisota is P. thyrsiflora, 
Benth., also a native of Fernando Po and other places in the 
Bight of Benin, which differs wholly in the tall stem and 
branched inflorescence. 
Descr. An almost stemless herbaceous plant, one to three feet 
high. Leaves springing from the root, one to two feet long, 
obovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at the base into 
a petiole of very variable length, attenuated at the apex into a 
long slender point ; petiole and /amina more or less covered with 
rather silky hairs, margin villous with a soft downy edging, very 
JUNE lst, 1862. 
