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cuneata, coriacea, siccitate flavescentia, opaca et impunctata, 
costis 5 subtus prominentibus, quarum 2, ad basin attin- 
gentes, szepe fere marginales sunt v. cum margine confluunt 
et vix conspicue, 2 cum costa media paullo altius et inzequa- 
liter confluunt, venulis transversis numerosis. Pedunculi 
prope basin innovationum supra: axillas inferiores solitarii, 
2-3-pollicares, tenues, jam infra medium usque ad apicem 
interrupte floriferi. Bractee omnino deesse videntur. Flores 
arcte sessiles, 14 lin. diametro. Calyx glaber v. minute pu- 
berulus, ultra medium fissus in lobos 4 late ovato-triangulares, 
wstivatione valvatos. Petala calyce paullo longiora, glabra, 
ad medium biloba, lobis irregulariter fissis in lacinias subu- 
latas quarum plerzque apice inflexe. Stamina petala sub- 
equantia, glabra, filamentis apice inflexis, antheris ovatis. 
Ovarium, disco impositum, villosum depresso-trilobum et 
obsolete triloculare ; nee ovula nec stylum detexi. 
A remarkable plant, evidently allied to Cassipourea, not- 
Withstanding its alternate leaves and apparently polygamous 
flowers. Its exact affinity cannot however be determined, until 
the perfect ovary and fruit shall have been seen. A second 
species,* with the same foliage and structure of flowers, but 
unfortunately with the like imperfection in the ovaries in the . 
only flower I could examine, is among Mrs. General Walker's 
Ceylon plants. It differs specifically from the African one in 
the presence of small bracts, in the form of the petals and some 
other slight points. 
L. OwacnaARLE. 
l. Jussiza villosa, Lam.—W. et Arn. FI Penins. 1. p. 336.— 
St. Thomas, Don.—A common East Indian plant. 
2. Jussima acuminata, Sw.—DC. Prod. 3. p. 54.—On the 
Quorra, at Attah, Vogel; St. Thomas, Don.—A West Indian 
Species. 
9. Jussiza linearis, Willd. — DC. Prod. 3. p. 55.— Grand Bassa, 
Vogel; Senegal and Guinea. P 
* Anisophyllum Zeylunicum ; foliis fere a basi 5-nervibus, spicis te- 
Ruiter bracteolatis, i 
