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Fruit ovate, rarely splierieal, up to 17 mm. hi length, } to ^ tlie 

 leiii^-th of the pedieel, orange-red, smooth or with seattered ghinduhu' 

 priekles, usually crowned almost up to maturity hy the sepals, which 

 are usually erect or obliquely divergent but sometimes reverted ; disc 

 reddish brown, the styles sometimes slightly projecting. 



Flowers in June, fruit ripe end of September or early in October. 



ALABASTUA DIVE USA.— Part XXXIII *. 



13 if Spencer Le M. Mooee, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



1. Plantarum Mascarensium puoillus. 



Homaliopsis Flacourtiacearum genus novum. 

 Calyx superus, tubo campanulato lobiscpie 5 iestivatione imbri- 

 catis. Petala 5, ad marginem disci inserta, restivatione late imbri- 

 cata. Stamina go, epigyna, in phalanges 5 petal is oppositas circiter 

 lo-andras ordinata. Discus ovarii tectum obtegens glandulis ininutis 

 obsitus. Ovarium omnino inferum, 1-loculare ; ovula od placentis 

 2 crassis approximatis loculi parte superiori affixis seriatim insidentia. 

 S/j/Ias indivisus, stigmate capitato terminatus. Capsula coriacea, 

 calyce inclusa limboque persistente coronata, 1-locularis, valvis 5 de- 



hiscens. Semina . — Folia alterna vel subopposita, petiolata, 



integra, punctis microscopicis translucentibus donata. Stipuh^ (nisi 

 fugace;e) 0. Flores parvi, in paniculas axillares breves digesti. 



Homaliopsis Forbesii, sp. unica. Ramis sat validis foliosis 

 minute griseo-tomentellis deinde glabrescentibus ; foliis oblongo- 

 oblanceolatis obtusis nisi obtusissimis basi in petiolum gradatim 

 desinentibus tenuiter coriaceis supra tandem fere glabris sul)tus 

 minutissime griseo-tomentellis ; Jlorihus breviter pedicellatis in pani- 

 culas pedunculatas cpiam folia manifeste breviores griseo-tomentellas 

 ordinatis ; calycis tomentelli tubo anguste campanulato quam lobi 

 suborbiculares longiore ; jjcfalis calycis lobis pauUo longioribus svd)- 

 orbicularibus breviter late([ue unguiculatis ; sfamijiinn phalangibus 

 petalis paullulum brevioribus, sfj/Io erecto crassiusculo glandulis 

 minutis sessilibus insperso. 

 Madagascar ; J. Forbes. 



Foliorum limbus 9-12 x 2-3*5 cm., in sicco griseo-viridis ; costa) 

 laterales pag. sup. prominuhe, utrinque us(pie 10, ascendentes, obscure 

 arcuataj ; petioli 1-2 cm. long. Panicuhe floreseentes 3-4x3 cm.; 

 harum pedunculus vix 2 cm, long. Pedicelli 4:1"5 mm. long. Calycis 

 tubus 3 mm. long,, ore 4 mm. lat. ; lobi 1*5 mm. long. Petala 

 2-5 mm. long., vix totidem lat. Staminum phalanges fere 2 mm. 

 long,; filamentorum pars connata 1'2 mm, long., '5 mm. lat., pars 

 libera "75 mm. long. ; antheraj ovoidea^ '4 mm. long. Sti/liis 2 mm, 

 long. Fructus 5 X SS mm. 



At first it was thought this nught perhaps be proposed as another 

 subgenus of that comprehensive genus lloiiialium, but the following 



* Types in the National Herbariian, 



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