FLORA NIGRITIANA 513 
longo. Stipule in unam brevem intra-axillarem obtusam 
concrete. Inflorescentie terminales v. axillares, subses- 
siles. Bractea fasciculi singuli inferior late ovata biloba, 
dorso sub apice mucronulata (revera stipularis), laterales 
semiovate. Flores in fasciculo 8 exteriores intra bracteas 
exteriores solitarii, cæteri in fasciculos circa 3 subdistiche 
congesti, omnes bractea membranacea fulva suffulti; foemi- 
neus in fasciculo unicus, masculi 6-8. Perianthium floris 
masculi 5-partitum, laciniis angustis æstivatione leviter im- 
bricatis. Sguamule 5, laciniis perianthii opposite. Stamina 
5, squamulis alterna, disco elevato inserta. Rudimentum 
pistilli minutum, trilobum. Ovarium floris foeminei trilocu- 
lare, loculis biovulatis. Stigma sessile, pileiforme, obsolete 
trilobum. Semina in loculis gemina, ecarunculata. 
Prate XLVII. Fig. 1. fascicle of flowers seen laterally; f. 2. 
the same seen from the rachis; f. 6. one of the lateral 
bracts ; f. 4. fascicle of flowers without the outer bracts ; 
f- 5. portion of a fascicle without the female flower ; f. 6. 
male flower, opened; f. 7. disk, with the rudiment of the 
ovary ; f. 8. pistil, vertical section; f. 9. valve of the cap- 
sule; f. 10. seed :—all but the two last magnified. 
There are, in Vogel’s Fernando Po collection, specimens of a 
shrub, which appears to constitute a new genus of Buzee, but 
as they are females only, I am unable to characterize it. The 
leaves are alternate, resembling those of Gelonium. The young 
tricoccous capsular fruits are in axillary racemes, ‘surmounted 
by three bifid styles, each cell containing, in the youngest, two 
ovules half-immersed in a thick fleshy placenta, only one of 
which appears to come to perfection. i 
e following genus, Microdesmis, has been referred by 
Planchon to anomalous Flacourtianee ; but as he also admits its 
relationship to Euphorbiacee, with which it appears to me to 
ave much closer connection, I here insert the West African 
Species with Dr. Planchon’s specific character, referring to 
Hooker’s Icones, t. 758, for the detailed generic character, taken 
9m this and a Malacca species, which I have not the opportu- 
nity of examining. 
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