borne no less than six different generic names; and we cannot 
but think the Maudinia of Planchon, in the volume of ‘Annales’ 
referred to in the foot-note below (p. 79), too nearly allied to 
this. 
Descr. Stem in our plant scarcely a foot high, erect, simple, 
rather slender, bearing several long-petioled, simple Jeaves (or 
rather unifoliolate compound leaves): these /eafleis are elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, three to ten or twelve inches long, obtuse, sub- 
coriaceous, very obtuse or rotundate at the base, glabrous, penni- 
nerved, beneath dotted with very minute brown dots ; petiole long, 
terete, ‘swollen at the very base, and again at the apex, when the 
leaf or leaflet is jointed on the petiole. Peduncle lateral, supra- 
axillary, longer than the leaves, bearing an interrupted speke or 
raceme of pale rose-coloured or white flowers. Flowers two or 
three from the same point, on very short pedicels, with a leafy 
bractea at their base. Calyx small, tubular-cup-shaped, with five — 
obscure teeth. Petals five, united by their claws into a subhy- 
pocrateriform corolla; the fude straight; /imd oblique, of five, 
hnear-oblong, spreading segments. Stamens, two perfect, in- 
cluded: anthers large, oblong-sagittate ; three elongated, much 
exserted, fleshy sterile filaments range with the two fertile ones, — 
and two rather smaller ones have their origin higher up in the 
tube. Ovaries five, enclosed in an hypogynous toothed cup. 
Styles combined into one. Stigma capitate. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil and hypogynous eup :—magnyjied. 
