10 | MR. J. MIERS ON NAPOLEONA, 
sub lente scabridule lepidotis et punctulatis, costa pallida nervisque prominulis, ad 
basin rarius 2-glandulosis ; petiolo fusco, canaliculato, limbo 16plo breviore : floribus 
axillaribus generis ; corolla rotata, subconcava, peripherio armeniaca, centro coccinea, 
subtus costis planatis 35 viridescentibus et scabridulis sensim acutis, margine in 
lobulos totidem crebre plicatulos incisa ; coronze соссіпеге series externa e segmentis 
60 liberis anguste linearibus constat, series intermedia e segmentis 50 linearibus ad 
medium campanulatim coalitis apice liberis et incurvatis, series interna e filamentis 
20 linearibus introflexis, imo in annulum brevissimum connatis, et hie ad discum 
elevatum crenulatum affixis; antheris 10; ovario 5-loculari, ovulis 4—6 in quoque 
loculo collateraliter axi superfixis: drupa depresse globosa, pallide rosea, aibide 
maculata, 5-loculari, pericarpio tenuissimo fragili; seminibus paucis, oblongis, com- 
pressis, ventre reniformibus, in pulpa mucilaginosa eduli immersis. In Africa tropica : 
v. в. pl. in herb. Mus. Brit. Sierra Leone (Whitfield), Sierra Leone (LAfzelius) ; in 
hb. Hook. Sierra Leone et Rio Nuñez (Whitfield): v. fr. s. in Mus. Brit. (Whitfield). 
Whitfield described this plant as like a camellia-bush ; and Lindley says it has a softish 
wood remarkable for its large medullary rays, with abundance of spotted vessels inter- 
mingled with acicular tubes of woody tissue, like those found in the germinating radicle 
of Rhizophora. In Whitfield’s specimen from Rio Nufiez, the branchlets spread at right 
angles; and Sir Wm. Hooker figures them as verticillated and horizontal. Тһе axils 
generally are 2-15 in. apart; the leaves are 42-62 in. long, 13—21 in. broad, on petioles 
3—4 lines long, near which below a gland is seen on each side; they are furnished with 
about 8 pairs of divergent nerves. The inflorescence, as in most of the other species, 
consists of 3 fasciculated flowers, almost sessile, on extremely short pedicels, which bear 
4 small roundish decussately imbricated bracts, each 2-glandular. Of these 3 flowers 
only one is at first developed, the other two in the meanwhile remaining in the bud- 
state: the sepals are square on the edges, gradually narrowing into a wedge-shaped 
point, below which externally are 2 imbedded glands; they are 3 lines long, 3 lines broad 
at the base, and are marked outside with many yellowish prominent granules ; they spread 
rotately to a diameter of 9 lines on the summit of the inferior turbinate ovary. The 
corolla is 11 in. in diameter, The fruit is 21 in. broad, 14 in. high, crowned by the per- 
sistent calyx and stigma, and there umbilicated; it differs from all other species in its 
pericarp not being thicker than a thin card, in being very brittle; it shows internally the 
slight vestiges of 5 dissepiments, which would seem to have been membranaceous ; for no 
traces of them are seen in the dried fruit, nor of the edible mucilaginous pulp in which the 
seeds are said to be enveloped. There are about 12 seeds, laterally compressed, 12 lines 
long, 7 lines broad, and 43 lines thick: the thin membranaceous testa decays in drying, 
leaving the embryo bare, except on the cicatrix on the ventral sinus, which is seen often 
on one side only, where the seeds have been collateral in each cell, and where they have 
been there attached on one side of the dissepiment. 
5. NAPOLEONA CUSPIDATA, nob.: ramulis subvalidis, pallidis, costato-striatis: foliis ma- 
joribus, oblongis, imo obtusis aut subacutis, apice in acumen lineare longum glan- 
duloso-mucronatum subito constrictis, marginibus undulato-erispatis, integris, sub 
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