specimen here figured having sixteen. Nor is the stipular 
character free from doubt. In the ‘Genera Plantarum’ 
(i. 799) Raleighia is described, on Gardner’s authority, as 
having foliaceous, deciduous stipules. But this 1s an 
obvious oversight, for Gardner describes the leaves as 
exstipulate, and so I find them in the specimen in the 
Kew Herbarium, and so they are in the only other genus 
of the tribe, namely, Abatia, and in a hitherto undescribed 
species of Raleighia. 
Descr—A_ slender, glabrous shrub, or undershrub ; 
branches erect, terete. Leaves opposite, two to three 
inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-cordate, obtusely acuml- 
nate, crenate-serrate ; basal lobes rounded, sinus narrow, 
light green above, paler beneath ; nerves six to eight pairs, 
deeply impressed. lowers in solitary, terminal, slender, 
peduncled, nodding racemes, three to four inches long, 
shortly pedicelled, § in. broad, golden yellow; buds 
globose ; bracts subulate. Calyx four-partite ; lobes trian- 
gular-ovate, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 8, 12, or 16, 
perigynous ; filaments slender; anthers yellow, didymous. 
Ovary broadly conico-ovoid, 3—4-celled ; style short, stigma 
obscurely lobed ; ovules numerous, on three or four parietal 
placentas, anatroprous.—J. D. ff. 
Fig. 1, Rachis of spike, bract, and bud; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 
5, ovary; 6, the same in transverse section; 7, fruiting raceme; 8, capsules 
9, transverse section of do.; 10, immature seed :—all but tig. 7 enlarged. 
