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obscure 10-crenatus. Stamina 10, intra disci marginem in- 
serta, antheris oblongis. Ovarium villosum, apice vix in 
stylum brevissimum attenuatum, intus triloculare. Stigma 
crassum, reflexo-trilobum. Ovula in loculis solitaria erecta. 
Drupa obovoidea v. globosa, styli reliquiis apicalibus, intus 
abortu unilocularis. Semen arillo mucoso involutum. Em- 
bryo rectus, cotyledonibus crassis conferruminatis, radicula 
parva.—Prutez ? Africz occidentalis tropic, habitu Cupanie. 
Folia impari-pinnata, foliolis oppositis v. alternis integer- 
rimis. Racemi breves axillares, floribus secus rhachin fas- 
ciculatis, breviter pedicellatis. 
- Lecaniodiscus eupanioides, Planch. MS.—Acera, Vogel; 
Sierra Leone, Don ; also Senegambia, Heudelot, in the 
Hookerian Herbarium. 
Frutex v. arbor, ramulis sulcatis pubescenti-tomentosis. Folio- 
rum petiolus communis 3-6-pollicaris, sulcatus, puberulus. 
Foliola 6-11, breve petiolulata, obovata obtusa v. brevissime ob- 
tuso-acuminata, basi breviter angustata, margine integerrima, 
at obscure undulata, submembranacea, supra siccitate fusco- 
brunnea, subtus pallidiora, glabra v. subtus ad costas pube- 
rula, penninervia, venulis inter nervos reticulatis. Racemi 
1}-2 poll. longi, rhachide rufo-tomentello. Bractee parve, 
caducissime. Pedicelli solitarii v. 2-3-ni, puberuli, 2 lin. 
longi. Calycis laciniæ fere 2 lin. longe, oblong, obtuse, 
crassiuscule, intus extusque pubescentes, per anthesin re- 
fexe. Discus 1} lin. diametro, plano-patelleformis, crena- 
turis vix conspicuis et fere usque ad marginem calycis fundo 
adnatus. Stamina glabra, ovario vix longiora. Anthere 
filamento paullo breviores, biloculares, rimis longitudinalibus 
dehiscentes, Ovarium sessile, ovoideo-globosum, dense villo- 
sum. Stylus brevissimus in lobos latos crasse stigmatosos 
ovato-hippoerepideos deflexos brevissime divisus. Drupa 
m 
Out the genus of this plant, and had referred it with doubt to Cupania, d 
Which ithas the habit. Dr. Planchon having since found a flowering 
specimen in Heudelot's collection, and ascertained that o7 ee. x 
an entirely new genus, I have drawn up the abbreviated c d 
the two specimens,—(G. B.) 
