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thickness, roundish, somewhat flattened on the sides by pressure, a little narrowed 
towards the point of their attachment at the axis, near which the radicle is embedded in 
the very fleshy cotyledons. 
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З. NAPOLEONA Үовкілі, Hook. et Planch. in Hook. Icon. tab. 799; Benth. in Niger 
Flora, p. 360, tab. 49; Walp. Ann. i. p. 475: ramulis tenuibus, pallide brunneis, 
sulcatis; foliis ellipticis, imo acutis, apice in acumen longum angustum ѕере callo- 
sum repente constrictis, subundulatis, ad marginem cartilagineum punctis fuscis 
obsolete serratis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, nervis tenuibus semi- 
immersis, subtus fulvescentibus, opacis, nervis venisque prominentibus ; sub lente 
crebre impresso-punctulatis, imo petiolum versus biglandulosis ; petiolo tenui, fusco, 
subtus corruguloso, limbo 18plo breviore : inflorescentia consueta ; sepalis 5, rarius 4, 
apice biglandulosis; corolla orbiculata, depresse concava, pro dimidia parte externa 
flava, interne sensim rubra, nervis 30 acute lanceolatis radiantibus extus granulato- 
pruinosis munita; coronæ flavidze verticillo 1° e segmentis 75, anguste linearibus, 
liberis, radiantibus, vertieillo 2° e segmentis 40 linearibus, pro dimidia parte in 
cupulam coalitis, marginem versus liberis et incurvatis; filamentis 20, consuetudine 
liberis et incurvis, antheris fuscis 10; ovario pluriloculari, ovulis perplurimis super- 
positis : fructu depresse subgloboso, ambitu obsolete 5-lobo, calyce coronato, fusco- 
purpureo, flavide maculato, 7-11-loculari; seminibus 12 vel pluribus in loculis 
solitariis, vel oblique superpositis, axi affixis, oblongis, compressis, ventre reniformi- 
sinuatis. Іп Africa occidentali: v. pl. s. in hb. Hook. Cape Palmas (Vogel), Lagos 
(Baxter, 20144) ; v. fr. in Mus. Kew. in spiritu (Vogel), siccum Sierra Leone (Lee). 
Baxter's plant may prove to be distinct; but as it greatly resembles Vogel's in its cha- 
racters, I have considered it identical. The acumen in the leaves of the former is longer 
and narrower, the leaves are longer and more acute at the base; and the two come from 
localities widely apart. Тһе leaves are 31—4 in. (іп Baxter’s 5 in.) long, 13-2 in. broad, 
on petioles 11-2 lines long. Тһе corolla is 20 lin. in diam.; when not expanded, and 
only half that size, it is of a pale yellow colour ; when full-grown it is a bright red colour 
towards the base. The fruit is 2} in. in diam., 2 in. high, and is well represented in 
Hook. Теоп., though somewhat larger than the specimens; there is no appearance of 
pulp, either when preserved in spirits or when dry ; the dissepiments are more persistent 
than in any other species, where they are probably membranaceous and disappear with 
the pulp. 
4. NAPOLEONA WHITFIELDII, Lindl. Gard. Chron. 1844, p. 780; Bot. Reg. vol. xxx. 
Misc. p. 77; Veg. Kingd. p. 728 cum icone; Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, tab. 386, 
387; Decaisne, Rev. Hort. (1853), p. 301, tab. 16; Schnizl. Iconog. ii. tab. 159. fig. 1 
ad 8: Napoleona imperialis, Hook. (non Palis.), Bot. Mag. tab. 4387: ramulis verti- 
cillatis, patentissimis, pallide brunneis, rugulosis: foliis oblongo-ellipticis, imo sub- 
acutis, apice in acumen lineare obtusulum constrictis, integris, marginibus sub- 
cartilagineis, rigidule chartaceis, supra pallidissimis, ssepe encausto-canescentibus, 
valde opacis, nervis paullo prominulis, subtus obseurioribus, brunnescentibus, opacis, 
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