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Hochstetter, which can only be explained by the supposition 
that he had unfortunately examined flowers and. fruit belonging 
to widely different genera. 
CnATERISPERMUM, (nov, gen.) e subtribu Vanguieriearum. 
Char. Gen.— Calycis limbus brevis, subsinuatus. Corolle tubus 
brevis, limbi lacinize 5, inflexo-acuminatz, sstivatione indu- 
plieato-valvata. Stamina ad faucem inserta ; filamenta brevia, 
anthere oblong:, subexserte. Stylus apice clavatus sub- 
integer. | Ovarium biloculare, ovulis solitariis ab apice loculi 
pendulis. Bacca globosa, levis, abortu. (an constanter ?) 
unilocularis, monosperma. Semen pendulum, hemisphzri- 
cum, extus leve, intus excavatum fere pateriforme, albumine 
carnoso-subcorneo, embryone parvo.—Frutex Africanus, ey- . 
mis densis multifloris axillaribus pedunculatis. 
L Craterispérmum laurinum, Benth.—Coffea laurina, Smeathm., 
DC. Prod. 4, p. 499.—Sierra Leone, Don, Vogel. 
Frutex glaberrimus, siccitate flavicans. Ramuli crassi, novelli 
compressiusculi, Folia 5-6-pollicaria, obovali-oblonga, bre- 
vissime et obtusa acuminata, basi in petiolum longe angus- 
tata, rigida, coriacea, reticulato-venosa. Stipule late, sub- 
connatæ, acutiusculæ, cauli adpresse. Pedunculi axillares v. 
Supra-axillares, ancipites, 3-1 poll. longi, apice cymam densam 
subcapitatam ferentes, ramis -brevissimis crassis compressis. 
Flores arcte sessiles, ad apices ramulorum cymæ dense aggre- 
gati. Calyx semilineam longus. Corolla fere Psychotriæ, 
1} lin. longa, (apertam tamen non vidi); tubus brevis, intus 
fere usque ad faucem glaber et nudus, fauce laciniisque intus 
Villosulis. Bacca subexsueca, pisiformis, siccitate viridi-fla- 
vescens, 2-3 lin. diametro, calycis vestigiis oblique umbilicata. 
Semen loculum fere implens; albumen sectione transversali 
hippocrepicum. 
With the flower of a Psychotria, and the fruit nearly that of 
Chasalia, this plant has the axillary inflorescence and pendulous 
ovules of the Vanguieriee. From Coffea, to which it had been 
referred from imperfect examination, it differs in several es- 
sential characters, both in the flower and fruit. i 
