334 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
coriaceis glabris nitidis basi biglandulosis, calycis subzequalis 
crassi laciniis petalisque orbiculatis obtusis, staminibus nume- 
rosis (cirea 40) in orbem fere completam dispositis.—On thé 
Quorra, at Attah, Vogel. 
Frutex arborescens, preter inflorescentiam glaber, ramis verru- 
cosis, ramulis brevibus, Stipule ovate, caducissime. Folia 
breviter petiolata, 3-4 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata, apice obtusa, 
basi cuneata v. rotundata, margine recurvo, utrinque glaber- 
rima; glandulis ad apicem petioli sitis parvis scutellæformi- 
bus. Panicula terminalis, brevis, cymoso-ramosissima, flori- 
bunda, ramis crassis, brevibus, pubescentibus. Bractee or- 
biculatæ, caducissimæ. ^ Calyz fere 4 lin. longus, tubo crasso- 
carnoso turbinato-campanulato subæquali, extus tomentoso 
intus glabro; laciniæ 2} lin. longæ, ovato-orbiculatæ, con- 
cave, obtusissimæ, intus glabra, extus pubescentes, æstiva- 
tione valde imbricatæ. Petala orbiculata, calycem subæquantia, 
caducissima. Stamina circa 40, fertilia, petalis plus duplo 
longiora, basi in orbem completum disposita et brevissime et 
oblique connata, ad latus pistilliferum floris dejecta, ad latus 
oppositum rariora, sterilia tamen nulla detexi. Ovaria m 
floribus 2 examinavi, in altero duo vidi in altero tria, distincta, 
omnia lateri calycis adnata et villosissima, singula more generis 
biovulata, ovulis dissepimento spurio sejunctis. Stylus inter 
ovaria a basi eorum natus, glaber, adscendens, more generis 
flexuosus. 
The multiplication of ovaries is singular among Chrysoba- 
lanee, but may not be constant even in the species, as there 18 
but a single specimen and I could only dissect two unopened 
flowers. The glandular leaves, fleshy calyx, and numerous 
stamens, might at first suggest the establishmont of a distinct 
genus, but in a Malacca plant gathered by the late Dr. Griffith,* 
which has also coriaceous biglandular leaves and a similar calyx, 
there are but about twenty-five fertile stamens, with somes hort 
* P. Griffithianum, foliis oblongis acuminatis coriaceis glabris nitidis 
basi biglandulosis, calycis subzequalis crassi laciniis petalisque orbiculatis 
obtusis, staminibus fertilibus numerosis (circa 25) unilateralibus, sterili- 
bus paucis minimis. 
