J 7G STiRPES EXOTIdE NOV^E. 



(ad ~ cent, longo) uli rami juniores parce hispido-setoso; stipulis 

 setiformibus petiolo paulo brevioribus. Flores (viridi-lutescentes) 

 terminales (an diœci?) spicati; spicis masculis cymiferls. Calyx 

 valvalus, 4-partitus. Stamina6-8, centralia insequalia ; filamentis 

 ima basi connatis; antheris subovatis, introrsum rimosis. Flores 

 fœminei in axilla bractearum spicse cordatarum basique 2-glandu- 

 losarum solilarii sessiles; sepalis 4-7, inœqualibus, imbricatis; 

 germine subgïoboso, 3-loculari ; styli ramis 3, dilatato-compressis 

 longe (ad 1 cent.) triangulari-subulatis, ima basi connatis. Cap- 

 sulas subglobosœ (~ cent, longée), 3-coccse glabrae; seminepisiformi 

 glabro exarillato. — In Gabonia leg.cl. Duparqûet (exs., n. 116), 

 ad planiliem dictam Bonando (Herb. Mus. par..). 



Ob?. — Pycnocomatis minoris (M. arc, Prodr., 951) forma conspieua 

 a cl. Grillon du Bellay (exs., n. ft6, 78) in Gabonia reperta est. 



77. Uapaca Bojeri. 



Frutex, ut videtur, ramis teretibus glabris, ad apicem leviter 

 incrassatis ibique ioliis congestis approximale alternis onustis. 

 Folia obovata v. oblongo-obovata (ad 4-6 cent, longa, 2 cent, 

 lata) subsessilia, basi plus minus, nunc longe angustata, apice 

 rotundata, integerrima glaberrima subcoriacea ; costa nervisque 

 primariis remotis obliquis vix prominulis. Flores diœci. Inflore- 

 scentise masculine in axillis supremis solitariae, longiuscule (ad 

 2 cent.) slipilatœ, pisitbrmes ; bracteis ad 8, valde imbricatis eo 

 longioribus et tenuioribus quo interioribus ; exlerioribus 4, 2- 

 eussatis, ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis ; cseteris suborbicularibus. 

 Flores sessiles; calyeisgamophylli lobis brevibus obtusis. Stamina 

 circa gynaecei rudimentum crassum obconico-infundibuliformc 

 et apice oc-iidum inserta ; filamentis brevibus latiusculis; antheris 

 erectis subobovatis obscure 4-gonis. Flores fœminei subsessiles 

 v. breviler stipitati ; germine 3-loculari ; styli ramis 3, summo 

 germine recurvis, apice oc-lidis. Fructus(immaturus) obovoideus 

 glaber carnosulus (ad 1 cent, longus), disco persistente annulari 

 basi munitus. — Crescit in montibus provinciee madagascariensis 



