310 STIRPES EXOTICÆ NOVAE. 
66. BaLANoPs PANCHERI, Var. SIMPLEX. 
Frutex 1-metralis (fid. Balansæ), caule simplici recto ; cortice 
(fuscato) rugoso gemmarum (v. florum ?) oceasarum cicatricibus 
notato. Folia ad internodia elongata spurie verticillata approximata 
oblonga (ad 15 cent. longa, 4 cent. lata), basi longe angustata ; 
petiolo brevissimo (+ cent.) compresso crasso; limbo ad apicem 
plus minus acutato; summo apice oblusato ; coriacco crasso glabro 
subintegro v. ssepius sinuato v. obtuse remoteque erenato; cre- 
naturis apice glandula nigrescente punctiformi notatis; margine 
arcte revoluto ; costa, nervis venisque reticulatis utrinque (in sicco) 
prominulis. Flores masculi ignoli; fceminei sessiles caulis inter- 
nodiis summis inter foliorum verlicillos inserti sessiles crebri ; 
sepalis erebris arete imbricatis ovato-acuminalis extus parce et 
ad margines ditius albido-velutinis, apice subglabrato fuscescen- 
libus. Germen calyce paulo brevius ovatum, 2-loculare, 4-ovula- 
tum; stylo brevi erecto, apice tubuloso, mox in lobos 2 profunde 
9-fidos diviso; laciniis filiformibus (siccitate nigrescentibus) re- 
flexis v. revolutis, apice haud inerassato sligmatosis. Fructus 
(immaturus) germini conformis calyceque persistente longior 
glaber; seminibus (immaturis) oblongis compressis glabris. — In 
Novæ-Caledoniæ monte Poume, ad alt. 400 metr. inter terras 
eruptivas legit Balansa (exs., n. 3185, in herb. Mus. par.). 
Speciei typus descript. in Adansonia, IX, 118, n. 1. An spec. distincta? 
67. BALANOPS MICROSTACHYA. 
Frutex 3, 4-metralis (fid. Balansa) glaberrimus, ramis tere- 
tibus (pallide cinerascentibus) ramulisque (pallide nigrescentibus) 
ad nodos leviter dilatatis. Folia subopposita v. sæpius ternata 
elliptico-oblonga (6 cent. longa, 2 cent. lata), basi in petiolum 
brevem (ad 4 cent.) subtus angulatum, supra concavum attenuata, 
apice obtusa, subintegra (margine reflexo) glaberrima coriacea 
penninervia ; costa, nervis venisque reticulatis utrinque (in sicco) 
