FLORA NIGRITIANA. 507 
minate $ lin. longe glomerati. Calyx valvatim 4-partitus. 
Stamina numerosissima, receptaculo globoso inserta; fila- 
menta brevia, antherarum loculi paralleli et contigui. Flores 
feminei solitarii, minute tribracteati. Pedicellus e bracteis 
exsertus, $ lin. longus. Calycis lacinie tres, lanceolate. 
Ovarium globosum, hispidulum, triloculare (rarissime 4-locu- 
lare), loculis uniovulatis. Styli tres, (rarissime 4), recurvi, 
intuslongiuseule et dense a basi plumoso-ramosi. Fructus 
levis, glaber, eoccis bivalvibus, singulis magnitudine seminis 
Lathyri odorati. 
This differs from the Asiatic Claoxyla in the opposite leaves 
and the want of the three appendages alternating with the 
divisions of the female calyx mentioned by Jussieu: the male 
flowers are also smaller than usual; but the general habit and 
Other characters are so much those of Claozylon, of which 
the Eastern species are probably numerous and variable in 
aspect, that these differences do not appear to be of generic 
importance, 
3. Claoxylon ? sp.—Fernando Po, Vogel; leaves opposite and 
shaped as in C. cordifolium, but longer and thinner. The 
specimens are too imperfect to describe. 
- Alehornea cordata, Benth—Schousbeea cordifolia, Schum. et 
Thonn. Beskr. p. 429; folis ample ovatis basi sinu clauso 
cordatis sub-5-nervibus 4-6-glandulosis subtus ad venas ra- 
mulis petiolisque hirtellis, spicis masculis axillaribus panicu- 
latis, fæmineis e ramis. annotinis pendulis simplicibus ramo- 
sisve, floribus octandris, calycibus bipartitis laciniis subbifidis. 
—On the Nun and at Aboh, Vogel; Sierra Leone, Vogel, 
Don.— Christmas-bush of the negroes. 
?. Alchornea hirtella, Benth. ; foliis ellipticis oblongisve obtuse 
acuminatis remote dentatis rigide membranaceis penninervi- 
bus v. basi subtrinervibus. subtus petiolis ramulisque hirsutis, 
glandulis baseos obsoletis, spicis masculis gracilibus ramosis, 
feemineis simplicibus, floribus octandris, calycibus bipartitis. 
— Grand Bassa, Vogel ; Senegambia, Heudelot. .— : 
ex bipedalis v. paullo altior, ramis paucis junioribus hir- 
sutis. — Folig breviter petiolata, tripolliearia v. paullo majora, 
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