12 МВ. J. MIERS ОМ NAPOLEONA, 
impresso-punctulatis, costa nervisque prominentibus, venis transversis et prominulis, 
imo seepius eglandulosis ; petiolo fusco, canaliculato, ruguloso, limbo 48plo breviore : 
flore solitario, breviter pedicellato, e gemma bracteolata axillari orto, pro genere 
parvo; sepalis acutis, sub apicem biglandulosis, extus pallide viridibus, pruinosis, 
intus flavidis; corolla undique flava, extus pruinosa, cum nervis obsolete costæ- 
formibus circa 30, in lobos totidem marginales rotundatos desinentibus, ambitu 
sepalos vix excedente; coron: alb: verticillo exteriore e laciniis 40 anguste line- 
aribus, e basi liberis, corollae eequilongis, imo annulo moniliformi vesicularum 
signato; verticillo intermedio imo cupulari et bic annulo monilformi munito, 
pro tertia parte in lacinias 40 angustas incurvas centro conniventes diviso; verti- 
сШо interiore in lacinias 20 lineares complete introflexas secto, apicibus anthera 
oblonga fertili munitis, cirea stylum conniventibus ; stylo et stigmate ut in charac- 
tere generis. Іп insula Fernando Ро: v. pl. sic. in hb. Hook. loc. cit. (Mann, 590). 
А species differing from all others in its much larger and more rigid leaves with a very 
pale encaustie surface, in its solitary flowers, only half the size of any of the others, of 
a uniformly pale colour, furnished with a white corona peculiar in the number of its 
parts. It forms a tree 20-25 feet high, with branchlets 14 line thick, with axils 1 in. 
apart; its leaves are 10 in. long, 4 in. broad, on a petiole 22 lines long. Тһе pedicel of 
its single flower is $ line long; the acute sepals are 4 lines long, 3 lines broad at their 
base; the corolla is 13 lines in diameter. The segments of the first whorl of the corona 
spread to a diameter of 13 lines; the diameter of the globular contour of the second whorl 
Slines. The fruit is unknown. 
7. NAPOLEONA ANGOLENSIS, Welw. MSS. : ramulis teneris, pallidis, 4-angulatis, rugulosis : 
foliis elliptico-oblongis, imo subobtusis, apice in acumen subbreve vel longius 
obtusulum subito constrictis, marginibus distincte et undique crenato-serratis, mem- 
branaceo-chartaceis, supra viridibus, subopacis, nervis divergentibus semiimmersis, 
subtus pallidioribus, costa nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis; petiolo supra 
eanalieulato, subtus valde corrugato, limbo 30plo breviore: floribus in axillis 3, 
e gemma ortis, quorum 2 alabastris, 1 expanso; pedicello vix ullo, imo decussatim 
bracteolato; sepalis 4 vel 5, acutis, apice 2-glandulosis, extus viridibus, intus fla- 
vescentibus; corolla late orbiculari, membranacea, subtus nervis 30 subulatis pro- 
minulis pallide pruinosis signata, ambitu in lobulos totidem rotundatos lacinulatos 
incisa, (sec. cl. Welw.) omnino nivea (sicca flavescente) ; coron: verticillo exteriore 
e laciniis 60 liberis albis, anguste linearibus, acutis, imo tenuioribus, corolla dimidio 
brevioribus, singulis subtus vesicula minima munitis; verticillo intermedio pro dimidia 
parte cupuliformi, extus annulo moniliformi vesieularum instructo, margine in 
lacinias lineares 45 inciso, his introflexis, centro conniventibus; verticillo interiore 
e laciniis 20 late linearibus, liberis, introflexis, apicibus anthera fertili donatis, stylum 
circumstantibus ; drupa sicca, depresse globosa, sinuato- 5-sulcata, pericarpio tenui, 
coriaceo, fragili, pallide rubidulo, punctis parvis flavidis immersis maculato, sicco 
uniloculari, intus septorum 5 vestigiis signato ; seminibus reniformi-oblongis, subcom- 
_ pressis. In Angola: v. pl. s. in hb. Welwitsch; v. fr. s. т Mus. Brit. (Welwitsch). 
