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alterna oblongo-lanceolata (ad 20 cent, longa, 7 cent, lata), brevi- 

 ter(ad 1 cent.) petiolata; petiolo crasso rugoso, basi articulato; 

 limbo basi nonnibil huequali-acutato v. obtusato, apice plus minus 

 acuminato, integro membranaceo penninervio; nervis primariis 

 crebris subtransversis haud procul a marginibus anastomosanti- 

 bus ; venis crebris tenuiter reticulatis. Flores in spicas abbreviato- 

 subcapitatas dispositiarticulati; pedunculo paulo supra-axillari loiï- 

 giusculo(2, 3 cent.), basi sensim attenuato; calyee hypocrateri- 

 morpho (1 { cent, longo); limbi patentis lobis 5, obtusiusculis, 

 imbricalis. Discus annularis crassus fauci insertus continuus, apice 

 demum patenti-recurvo insequali-fimbriato-lobatus. Stamina 10, 

 disco inferiora tuboque 2-seriatim inserta ; alternipetalis 5, multo 

 inferioribus; antheris subsessilibus ovatis obtusis, introrsum 

 2-rimosis. Germen sessile, disco destitutum, longe eonicum et 

 sensim in stylum apice stigmatoso obtusum dilatatum, dense hir- 

 sutum; ovulol, descendente.^ — Stirpsgenus novum sistens, hinc 

 Gnidiœ, inde Synaptolepidi affine, ab utroque adspectu, foliis, 

 intlorescentia, floris imprimisque disci indole distinguendum, ori- 

 tur in ins. Mayotta Comorarum, ubi in sinubus montium Moussa- 

 pêré leg. olim Boivin (exs., n. 3135). 



152. Stephanodaphne? cremostachya. 



Frutex, ut videtur, glaber; innovationibus albido-sericeis; ra- 

 mis gracilibus virgatis ; cortice fuscato striato ; libro tenacissimo 

 (albido). Folia alterna, vix petiolata, oblongo-v. elliptico-lanceolala 

 (ad 8 cent, longa, 3 cent, lata), basi longa subaequali-angustata, ad 

 apicem plus minus longe acuminata, summo apice obtusiuscula, 

 subintegra v. minute crenulato-sinuata penninervia ; nervis pri- 

 mariis crebris obliquis; venis venulisque crebris lineatis subpa- 

 rallelis. Flores spicati ; spicis supra-axillaribus v. procul ab axillis 

 lateralibus, longe (6-10 cent.) filiformibus, cernuis, basi nudatis, 

 apice florifero sensim incrassatis longeque clavatis ebracteatis, flo- 

 ribus minutis (2-4 mill.) pulvinaribus prominulis insertis articu- 



