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stigmatoso profonde eiliato, perianthio fructifero basi usque ad 

 médium cum fruclu connato valdecupulalo, ultra fructum in tubum 

 longum, basi obclavata dilatatum, apice attenuatum irregulari- 

 terque dentatum producto, extus setis rigidis hispidulo v. post 

 occasum setarum scabrido. Fructus suborbiculato-eompressus, ad 

 médium inferus, apice in stylum gmcilem persislentem seto- 

 sumque desinens, exlus itidem selosus; mesocarpio tenui, puta- 

 mine lignoso, intus breviter aculento; embryone albumini subae- 

 quilongo, radieula brevissime conica, cotyledonibus tbliaceis 

 breviler ellipticis basi 3-nerviis. Caetera ignota. — t>. In Africa 

 trop, oec., ad Old Calabar (W. C. Thomson, in hb. Kew.). Phy- 

 toerene spee. altéra dubia fOliv., FI. trop. Afr., I, 359). — Caulis 

 visus pennœ corvinae crassit. Foliorum limbus ad 12 cent. long., 

 5 ~ cent. Iat. Petiolus 1 cent. long. Spica fœminea vix 1 cent, 

 longa. Calyx fructifier ad 6 cent. longns basique dilalata 1 J cent, 

 lutus, tubo (in sicco ferrugineo) ad apicem 3 mill. lato. 



2. Chlamydocarya capitata. 



Scandens, caule ramulisque pilis ferrugineisundiquehirsutis, 

 foliis (fere Tragiœ) remote alternis petiolatis ovato-acutis, basi 

 cordatis, apice plus minus aeuminatis, limbo penninervio, subtus 

 cum petiolis nervisque, pilis iisdem rufescentibus dense obsito, 

 inflorescentia axillari ramo lignoso griseo lenticellisque consperso 

 inserta, constante e capitulo solitario pedunculato v. e capitulis 

 paucis in racemum dispositis; peduneulo fuseato-villoso; l'ructu 

 oblique ovato compresso, stylo persistenle arcuato apiculalo; pe- 

 rianthio circa fructum inclusum sacciformi ultraque in collum 

 brevem incurvum producto, extus parce, intus ditius pilis iisdem 

 ac pedunculis birsuto; mesocarpio tenui, basi infera in cupulam 

 cumcalyce connato, extus hirsuto; putamine lignoso, extus valde 

 rugoso reticulato, intus, ut in génère, crasse aculcato; embryone 

 iilinspec. praecedente; cotyledonibus subellipticis, basi 3-5-nervïis. 

 Phytocrene spec. altéra dubia (Oliv., FI. trop. Afr., I, 359). In 

 Africa tropica occidentali, circa Sierra-Lconc (Kirk, n. 35, in hb. 



