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2, Glochidion, sp., very near the last, but the young branches 
clothed with rusty hairs.—On the Quorra, at Attah, Vogel. 
1, Bridelia ferruginea, Benth.; fruticosa, foliis ovali-ellipticis 
coriaceis supra glabris subtus ramulisque ferrugineo-pube- 
rulis, baccis parvis oblongis monospermis.—On the Quorra, 
at Attah, Vogel. 
Frutex arborescens, divaricato-ramosus. Folia breviter petio- 
lata, 2-3-pollicaria, obtusa v. brevissime acuminata, margine 
recurva, basi rotundata, supra glabra at non nitida, subtus 
venis primariis pinnatis elevatis venulisque transversis reticu- 
lata, ferruginea, presertim ad costas pubeseentia. Stipule 
parve. Flores desunt, sed e cicatricibus fructuque persistente 
ad axillas glomerati erant. Calyx sub fructu persistens, 
parvus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis; squamellz (petala ?) 5, parvi, 
acute, cum laciniis calycinis alternantes. Drupa 3 lin. longa, 
nigra, intus semibilocularis ; dissepimenti disrupti axis per- 
sistit semen perforans et margines intra sulcos seminis 
leviter prominent. Semen fenestratum, albumine valde 
involuto fructum totum implens et axin dissepimenti am- 
plectens, 
The leaves of this species, especially in their consistence, 
venation and pubescence, have some resemblance to those of 
B. scandens. I regret much there being no flowers to examine 
the ovary, for the appearance of the fruit seems to indicate that 
the one-celled and one-seeded fruit, produced by a two-celled, 
four-ovuled ovary, is not formed in the usual way, by the fertile 
cell increasing so as to occupy the whole interior cavity, the 
abortive one either wholly disappearing or being rejected to 
one side; but both cells increase equally, the fruit remaining 
regular in form, with the original axis in its centre; one ovule 
alone enlarges, and penetrating through the broken dissepiment 
on each side of the axis, occupies the whole of the two cavities, 
enclosing the axis in its centre. 
Brown mentions two new species of Bridelia from Congo; 
whether or not either may be the same as the above, I have no 
means of ascertaining. 
