l6 BOTAXiCAL GAZETTE. [January, 



cus, and in the entire absence of a stylopodium. In Eulo- 

 phus the carpels are decidedly dorsally flattened, the seed- 

 face has a broad and shallow concavity, and there is a coni- 

 cal stylopodium. Donnellsmithia difters from Museniopsis 

 in its tall and slender caulescent habit, foliage characters, 

 the absence of a stylopodium, and its more flatlened carpelS. 

 In fact, the low depressed acaulescenl habit of Museniopsis, 

 and its fohage are strikingly different from the new genus. 



ExPLANATioN oF Plate IL— Fig. 1, the whole plant; fig. 2, a single 

 umbeliet; fig. 3, a single fruit; fig, 4, cross-section of flie fruit, in which, 

 however, the pericarp is too thick, 



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