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brevi-stipitatum, hine gibbosum, uniloculare, ovulo unico ex 
apice loculi pendulo. Stylus filiformis, in stigma lineari- 
clavatum desinens. Drupa? exsucca, brevistipitata, meso- 
carpio e filamentis nitentibus contexto. Semen suspensum, 
globosum, anatropum, integumento membranaceo ; embryonis 
recti cotyledones hemispheric carnose, radicula semi-exserta 
minutissima. (Planchon). 
l. Dieranolepis disticha, Planch. in Hook. Ic. t. 798. (Tas. 
XLVIII).—Sierra Leone, Don. 
Frutex? ramulis tenuibus virgatis foliisque distichis, gemmis 
ramulis novellis petiolis perianthiisque extus pilis adpressis v. 
patentibus subsericeis v. hispidulis. Folia crebra, alterna, 
oblique subtrapezoidea-lanceolata, cuspidata, integerrima, 
brevissime petiolata, 1-1}-pollicaria, rigide membranacea, 
nervis lateralibus tenuibus sat crebris, glabra, nitida, supra in 
sicco læte viridia, subtus viridi-flavescentia. Stipule nulle. 
Flores axillares, solitarii, subsessiles, folio non multo breviores. 
Fructus mole seminis Coryli Avellane, preter styli basin 
persistentem mamilliformem pilosulum glaberrimus. (Plan- 
chon). 
Prae XLVIIL Fig. 1. flower; f. 2. stamen; f. 3. pistillum 
with the disk sheathing its base; f. 4. ovary and sheath, 
vertical section; f. 5, fruit; f. 6. seed:—all, but the fruit, 
more or less magnified. 
XCI. LavnINEX. 
1. Cassyta Guineensis, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 199.— 
Sierra Leone, Don; Grand Bassa, on the Nun and the 
Quorra, Vogel; Guinea. i 
This species has been accidentally overlooked by Nees in his 
elaborate monograph. It appears scarcely distinguishable 
either from the common Brazilian and Guiana species, well 
described by Nees as C. Brasiliensis, Mart., or from the South 
African specimens distributed by Drège as C. pubescens, Br.; 
but it does not quite agree with Brown’s short character of his 
South-east Australian C. pubescens, nor yet with Schlechten- 
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