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6'5-8 em. broad. Panicles many-flowered, + 8-12 em. long; rachis 
ee pedicels often longer than the flower. Petals 4-5 mm. 
ong. 
Allied to T. Mannii Hook. fil. 
The distinguishing features of this species are the imparipinnate 
leaves with 6-7 leaflets; the generally hermaphrodite flowers with 
ovate petals 4-5 mm. long, in a dense, short, many-flowered panicle 
8-12 em. long ; and the hairy disc. 
Nothospondias Talbotii S. Moore sp. nov. Arbor elata, 
foliolis circa 15 breviter petiolulatis oblongis vel anguste oblongo- 
ovatis utrinque obtusis basi saepe obliquis papyraceis glabris; 
paniculís quam folia brevioribus minute fulvo-pubescentibus cito 
glabrescentibus; calycis pubescentis puberulive lobis deltoideis 
obtusis tubo brevioribus; petalis oblongis obtusis sepalis duplo 
longioribus reflexis; ovario ovoideo-oblongo apice truncato pro- 
minenter 8-sulcato sursum piloso ceterum glabro; stylo abbreviato 
apice 4-lobulato. 
Oban ; n. 230. j 
Axis of leaf about 7 dm. in length, swollen quite at the base, 
fistular, purplish-brown, shining. Leaflets usually 15-18 cm. long, 
4-5 cm. broad, the basal obliquity not very marked and sometimes 
absent, greenish-brown when dry above, brown below, on both 
faces palely lucent; lateral nerves prominent on the underside, 
usually 6-8 on each side of midrib, openly arched, anfractuose 
towards the margin of the leaf; petiolules 5-7 mm. long. Panicle 
30 cm. or more in length, its branches ascending or patent, and some- 
times so patent that the panicle may measure nearly 40 cm. across ; 
main axis as well as branches ancipitous. Flowers 6 to the fascicle 
or less; bracts about ‘3 mm. long, like the 3-4 mm. long pedicels 
tawny pubescent. Functionally male flowers alone seen. Calyx 
nearly 2 mm. long. Petals 5 mm. long, inserted upon a sort of torus 
(gland?) rather more than ‘5 mm. in height. Filaments 5-6 mm. 
long, the lower portion of each lying in one of the furrows of the 
ovary. Ovary with its four cells reduced to minute resin-filled 
cavities, 1*5 mm. long; style "3 mm. long. 
Several flowers were examined, but all proved to be males. The 
plant may thus possibly be diccious. S i 
The short stipe (torus) at the top of which the petals are inserted 
passed unnoticed by Engler when establishing the genus. - This stipe 
is certainly not present in some of the flowers of N. Staudtii Engl. 
examined, but in other cases there seems to be a perceptible interval 
between the insertion of the calycine whorl and the petaline. As 
N. Staudtii is polygamous, the variation in question may perhaps 
have some relation to this fact. It must be added that Ifailed to find 
either in N. Staudtiü or in N. Talbotii the dilated, deeply 4-lobed 
dise Engler describes. This, too, would therefore appear to be an 
inconstant character. : : 
lrrespective of certain floral points, the two species can be dis- 
tinguished on sight by the different leaflets.— [S. M.] 
