about half an inch in diameter; larger terminal leaves with 

 petioles from one to two inches long and about the third of 

 an inch broad, with lamina three to four inches long and about 

 two or more broad, on the upper furface deep green, on the 

 under very pale green with a filvery glofs, edges reflex ; in- 

 florefcence at the fiimmit of the caudex without any intervening 

 item or peduncle, embofomed in the lower part of the 

 larger leaves, but immediately furrounded by others nearly of 

 fimilar fhape but many times fmaller; the leaflet at the bafe of 

 each floral fafcicle is ftill fmaller, epetiolate, and often fpha- 

 celate ; rachis knobbed at the fcites of the floral fafcicles. 

 The reft of the plant is fully defcribed in the above fpecific 

 chararcier, except the feed. Older plants may poffibly acquire 

 a greater height than ours has at prefent : if they are long-lived 

 and continue to produce periodically the terminal fide branch, 

 they muft of courfe attain a much more confiderable ftature. 



A fpecies not yet defcribed in any publication known to us. 

 Native of Sierra Leone j from whence the feed was fent by 

 ProfefTor Afzelius to Mr. Loddiges, in whofe ftove the 

 plant flowered iaft September. G, 



