254 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
reticulata, costis et venis primariis presertim subter pube 
brevi tomentellis, petiolo cirea 3 lin. longo pubescente ; folia 
novella venis dense hirtis flavicant. Pedunculi in axillis su- 
perioribus bipollicares, apice umbellam ferunt pluri- (8-101) 
floram. Pedicelli tomento, minimo canescentes, 4-5 lin. longi, 
basi bracteis parvis sericeis confertis stipati. Calyx capuli- 
formis, tomentellus, lineam longus. Petala 10-11 lin. longa, 
lineari-oblonga, basi longe angustata, extus in sicco- vix 
tomento tenuissimo leviter canescentia, in vivo fide Vogel 
intus albida et patentia. Tubus stamineus dimidio petalorum 
longior, tenuiter cylindracea, intus infra apicem. pilosulus, 
exterum glaber; dentes apicales. setacei, antheris VIX 
breviores, superne integri v. bifidi et papilloso-serrulati, m 
alabastro erecti et inter antheras stylo appressi, per anthesin 
reflexo-patentes.* Anthere ad apicem tubi subsessiles, ob- 
longo-lineares, connectivo in apiculam uncinato-inflexam pro- 
ducto. Stylus usque ad apicem antherarum tenuis, dein 
inflatus, oblongo-linearis, glandula stigmatosa crassa sub- 
integra depressa coronatus. Ovarii loculi 12 vidi in flores 
paucos quos examinavi. tix 
2. Turrea propinqua, Hook. fil.; ramulis glabriusculis, folis 
elliptico-oblongis obtusis v. vix acuminatis integerrimis (V. 
apice lobatis?) basi angustatis glabris v. vix ad venas minute 
puberulis, floribus pedicellatis pentameris, calyce brevissime 
dento; tubi staminei dentibus 20 setaceis demum patentibus, 
ovario 12-loculari, styli parte inflata apice tantum stigmatosa; 
petala superante, —St. Thomas, Don. 
Rami quam in. precedente tenuiores, nonnisi juniores tenuissime 
puberuli. “Folia minora. et angustiora, majora in specimine 
- vix tripollicaria, semelque in specimen folium apice lobatum 
occurrit. Pedunculi pollicares, pedicellis in umbella sem- 
* The arrangement of these curious appendages in the bud, as well 25 
the texture of the upper portion of them, seem to indicate that they are 
destined, as well as the hooks on the top of the anthers, to perform some 
function at the time of fecundation, perhaps analogous to that of the 
collecting hairs found in so many plants at the same period on the style oF 
other contiguous parts. 
