collected by Seeman in Boquitte, has fewer flowers in the 

 heads, distinct recurved styles, and much broader leaflets. 



0. Thibautii was received under this name from Ver- 

 schaffelt in 1862, and flowered at Kew in 1869 and 

 subsequently, in the month of November. 



Descr. A small tree, glabrous except for a minute stellate 

 pubescence on the youngest parts. Bnmehei as thick as the 

 little finger. Leaves at the ends of the branches, digit at el v 

 5-7-foliolate ; leaflets three to six indies long, elliptic- 

 lanceolate or ob-lanceolate, gradually narrowed at both ends, 

 quite entire, coriaceous, smooth, glossy above, nerves 

 spreading; petiole cylindric, 4-8 inches long ; petiolnles one 

 quarter to half an inch long. Fbwen (male?) in dense 

 globose heads, one third of an inch in diameter, collected in a 

 straight terminal raceme a foot long; peduncles stout, half 

 an inch long; bracts and outer braoteolea minute, triangular, 

 acute ; bracteoles amongst the flowers elongate wedge-shaped, 

 with rounded villous apices. Caly r-limb obscurely : >-t <•< »thed. 

 Petals 5, triangular-oblong, glabrous. 8k R ith fila- 



ments twice as long as the petals. Ovary (imperfect?) 

 with a hemispheric vertex, and short columnar style.— J.D.H. 



Fig. 1. Head of flowers with peduncle and bract: 2, bnd and bracteole : :i. 

 flower laid open ; 4, ovary : — all enlarj.,1. 



