from Monrovia (Krause), and from dry places in Sienna 

 Leone (G. F. Scott Elliot) ; it has leaves glabrous on botji 

 surfaces, except for a few scattered bristles, and bears the 

 name of K. parva. Oliver, in Fl. trop. Afr. 1. c, mentions 

 a possible new species collected by Afzelius, and preserved 

 in the British Museum, with whip-like branches, and leaves 

 not exceeding one inch long. Seeds of Uonck^.nya ficifolia 

 were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898, by Mr. 

 Millen, when he was in charge of the Lagos Gardens, 

 plants raised from which flowered in a stove in September, 

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Descr. — A stellately pubescent shrub, or small tree, 

 rarely twenty feet high, with stout branches, and fibrous 

 brown bark. Leaves very variable, shortly, stoutly petioled, 

 two to four inches long, broadly oblong or ovate oblong,, 

 variously but not deeply three- to seven-lobed, base cor- 

 date, three- to seven-nerved ; lobes rounded, obtuse, 

 coarsely crenate, scaberulous above, beneath softly, ap- 

 pressedly tomentose ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. 

 Flowers sub-solitary, or in short racemes, shortly pedi- 

 celled, two to three inches broad. Sepals four or five, 

 linear, one and a half to two inches long, petaloid, pubes- 

 cent. Petals as long as the sepals, orbicular, broadly 

 clawed, purpHsh pink. Stamens eight to ten. Filaments 

 very unequal, some nearly as long as the petals, puberu- 

 lous. Staminodes very many, multiseriate, erect, filiform, 

 puberulous, with clavate, glabrous, yellow tips. Ovarij 

 six- to eight-celled, cells many-ovuled ; style sim.ple, stigma 

 six- to eight-toothed. Capsule au inch long or less, 

 oblong, echinate all over, loculicidally six- to eight- valved, 

 many-seeded. Seeds horizontal, sub-orbicular, compressed. 



Fig. 1, receptacle with stamens, starainodes, and ovary : 2, 3, a-id 4, anthers ; 

 Stuminodes -.—all enlarneA 



5, stuminodes -.—all enlarged. 



