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biovulatum, ovulis ex apice loculi pendulis, anatropis, raphe introrsa. 

 Stylus simplex, filiformis, glaber, longe exsertus, in alabastro vario 

 modo curvatus, stigmate simplici. Fructus fere magnitudinis nucis 

 myristicae, 1-2 in quoque pedunculo, ovales, acuti, tomentosuli, 4-sul- 

 cati, sulcis fundo rugosis, pericarpio ligneo, in valvis4 partibili. Semen 

 unic'um, totum loculum fructus implens, substantia interna meandri- 

 formi, in sicco inextricabili. — (v. s. sp.) 

 Hab. In Africa austro-orientali, et verisimiliter provincia Caffrorum. 



According to the information gathered by Professor Bertoloni, 

 the butter produced by this tree is called CTiiquito by the CaiFres, 

 and commonly used to dress their victuals ; it is also carried to the 

 coast of Mozambique as an article of commerce. It is white, and 

 rather hard, with a peculiar aromatic odour, which may be traced 

 to the fruit and its kernel from which it is obtained. Its chemical 

 composition is — Olein 25, Margarin 75=100. 



' I cannot agree with Professor Bertoloni in the opinion that our 

 Comhretum hutyrosum is the same as the Shea-tree of Mungo Park, 

 as such an opinion is grounded on no other fact than that both are 

 from Africa and produce a kind of vegetable butter. The figure 

 given in the first Voyage of Mungo Park of the Shea-tree is of a 

 plant far different from our Comhretum, with its elliptical-oblong, 

 slightly obovate, obtuse leaves, with rather long foot-stalks, alter- 

 nate and clustered in close spirals at the top of the branches. 

 The fi'uit also is different. Nor is there any reason to believe 

 with Professor Bertoloni that the figure was drawn by mistake 

 from some other plant. Mungo Park referred the Shea to the 

 order Sapotacece, and it seems rightly, as it has been subsequently 

 described by Gr. Don as a kind of Bassia {B. Parhii). 



Descriptions of New Species of TTtricularia from South America, 

 with Notes upon the Genera PolypompTiolyx and Akentra. 

 By Daniel Olivee, jun., F.L.S. (With a Plate.) 

 [Read Not. 17, 1859.] 

 I FUENisH, in the first place, a description, with an excellent 

 figure by Mr. Pitch, of a new and remarkable epiphytical TJtricu- 

 laria sent recently by Professor Jameson of Quito to Sir William 

 J. Hooker. 



Uteicijlaeia, L. (Sect. Orchidioides, A. D.C.) 

 U. Jamesoniana. Scapo graciU (2-3-pQnicari) 1-2-floro, folio 

 basi- ejus hneari-lanceolato v. lanceolato-spathulato, corollae labio 



