8 MR. J. MIERS ON NAPOLEONA, 
pulchre azurea, rotata, margine crenulato, subtus nervis crassis subulatis radiantibus 
35 donata; corona rosea, paulo minore, verticillo primo e segmentis 35 linearibus 
rotatis liberis, verticillo secundo e segmentis 35 linearibus imo in cupulam con- 
matis, superne liberis, et centrum versus inflexis, verticillo interiore e filamentis 20 
liberis, plano-linearibus, crebre uniseriatis, inflexis, quorum 5 antheriferis; pistillo 
generis: drupa globosa, apice umbilicata, sepalis stigmateque coronata, pluriloculari, 
plurisperma, seminibus in pulpa nidulantibus. In regione Benin, ad Waree: 
v. в. in herb. Hook. (Beauvais). 
The above details are derived from the description of Beauvais, and from the incom- 
plete specimen at Kew sent from the Paris Museum. The species is abundant in woods 
behind the royal residence on the river Escardos, growing to the height of 7 or 8 feet. 
The leaves are 43-6 in. long, 2-22 in. broad, on a petiole 2 lines long: the calyx ex- 
panded is 8 lines in diam. ; the corolla is 18 lines in diameter. 
2. NAPOLEONA HEUDELOTII, Juss. Ann. Өс. Nat. 2™° sér. ii. 227, tab. 4; Fl. des Serr. i. 
р. 2, tab. 2; Ann. Hort. (1822) tab. 10; Walp. Rep. vi. 408 : Napoleona imperialis, 
var. purpurea, DC. Prodr. vii. 750: arbor ramis verticillatim horizontalibus, ramulis 
subtenuiter teretibus, subangulatis, brunneis, striolatis: foliis oblongo-ellipticis, 
imo subacutis, apice in acumen breve obtusulum sensim aut repente constrictis, 
margine integris, tenuiter chartaceis, utrinque pallide viridibus, opacis, et minute 
granulatis, subtus vix obscurioribus, nervis tenuibus supra immersis, subtus nervis 
pallidis venisque prominentibus, imo 2-glandulosis, petiolo fusco limbo 20plo 
breviore : inflorescentia przecedentis ; corolla ejusdem formee sed purpurea, margine 
crenata, nervis subulatis 40 radiantibus; corona rosea, verticillo exteriore e seg- 
mentis linearibus liberis 40 nervis corolle alternis, verticillo 2% imo poculiformi, 
margine in lacinias 40 incurvas fisso ; filamentis 20, antheris 10; stylo et stigmate 
generis; ovario infero, 5-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 4, collateraliter super- 
positis: drupa globosa, ambitu obsolete 5-loba, 5-loculari; seminibus in quoque 
loculo 4, superpositis et collateralibus, pulpa involutis, angulato-globosis, lateribus 
compressis, apice subcuneatis, emarginatis, et hine ad axem affixis, testa tenui; coty- 
ledonibus plano-convexiusculis, crassis, carnosis ; radicula in sinu immersa, ad axem 
spectante. Іп Senegambia interiore: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. et Hook. Foota Jalhoo 
(-Heudelot). 
The Museum specimen was sent by Jussieu to Mr. Robert Brown, the other one to 
Kew, from the Paris collection, both collected by Heudelot under the circumstances 
mentioned in a preceding page. It forms a tree, which is rare, with a straight trunk about 
30 feet high, growing in freshwater places on the elevated tableland of Foota Jalhoo, in 
ferruginous rocks. The axils of its slender branchlets are 3-1 in. apart; the leaves are 
33—55 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, on petioles 2 lines long: of the three axillary buds, only a 
single flower is developed at the same time. Тһе corolla, of a reddish purple colour, is 
14 in. in diameter; the corona, of a rose-colour, is half that diameter. Тһе drupe, 
marked with white spots, is 12 in. in diameter, 14 in. high, the coriaceous pericarp being 
1i-2 lines thick; it is 5-celled, containing 20 superposed seeds, which are 6-8 lines in 
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