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with the most valuable characters by which they are distinguished 

 from each other and from their allies. 



I have seen F. muralis from Barnes, Surrey (Mr. Pamplin) ; 

 Shrewsbury, Salop ; Wrexham, Denbighshire (J. E. Bowman) ; 

 Sheffield (Eev.W. W. Newbould). 



Having now characterized all our species belonging to the 

 group called Capreolatce, it may be well to add a similar notice of 

 the true F. capreolata (Linn.), derived from specimens received 

 from several parts of the South of Europe, and especially from 

 some gathered by Mr. Sender at Montpellier, in the place pointed 

 out by DeCandolle. 



F. CAPREOLATA {Linn.) : sepalis ovatis basi dentatis tubi coroUae lati- 

 tudine latioribus eodemque duplo brevioribus, fructibus obovato-com- 

 pressis obtusis parvis longioribus quam latis laevibus, basi fructus lata 

 obconica pedicelli apicem sequante, bracteis pedicellis floriferis et 

 fructiferis reflexis brevioribus, racemis evolutis laxis brevibus pauci- 

 floris. 



F. capreolata, Linn. Sp. PI. 985. DeCand. Syst. ii. 133; Fl. Fr. iv. 

 639; Prod. I 130. 



F. speciosa, Jord. "Cat. Gren. 1849, 15;" in Schultz, Arch. 199; in 

 Walp. Ann. Bot. ii. 28. Lloyd, Fl. Quest, 24. Bor. Fl. Cent. ii. 34. 



Sepals persistent, often even found with the fruit, usually entire 

 ill their upper half. Cor. very large, white, tipped with brown- 

 black. Fruit half as large as that of F. pallidiflora. Base of the 

 fruit not nearly so broad as the fruit and narrowing downwards 

 to its point of attachment. The whole fresh fruit is rather pyri- 

 form, quite smooth ; its apical pits conspicuous. 



On Combretum butyrosum^ a new kind of Butter-tree from South- 

 eastern Africa. By T. Caetjel of Florence. Communicated 

 by J. D. HooKEB, M.D., F.E.S. & L.S. 

 [Read Nov. 17th, 1859.] 

 Several years ago Professor Joseph Bertoloni published an ac- 

 count of a kind of vegetable butter, which he had received from 

 South-eastern Africa together with dried specimens of the tree 

 that produced it. This tree Professor Bertoloni considered as 

 belonging to a new genus, which he consequently described under 

 the name of Sheadendron, and called the plant S. butyrosum, from 

 an idea that it was the same as the celebrated Shea-tree men- 

 tioned by Mungo Park. According to him, the Sheadendron could 



