250 



glabra. Stamina 32-34, filamentis usque ad 6 mm. longis inferne . 

 eonnatis, exterioribus brevioribus, antherarum thecis apice con- 

 tignis deorsum divergentibns. Oapsula subturbinata, obtuse 

 5-angulata, apice leviter depressa, l'5-2*3 cm. longa, l'7-2 cm. 

 diametro, extra dense stellato-pubescens, endocarpio crustaceo 

 falvo nitidulo tandem soluto. Semina ovoideo-globosa, cinerea, 

 brunneo-variegata, 6-7 mm. diametro. 



Ecuador. Chonana near Guayaquil, Spruce, 6260. 



Asterophorum has the floral characters of Christiana and the 

 fruit of Pityranthe. The fruit of Christiana consists of several 

 (five or fewer) free follicles, and Asterophorum must therefore be 

 regarded as generically distinct from it, in spite of the great 

 resemblance in habit and floral characters. The carpels of 

 Christiana at the time of flowering are united to one another by 

 the lower part of the ovaries only ; owing to the interlocking of 

 the long hairs with which they are clothed, however, the whole 

 of the ovaries and the lower part of the styles appear, on super- 

 ficial examination, to be connate. 



Speirostyla, Baker (Sterculiaceae), is identical with Christiana, 

 and S. tiliaefolia, Baker, is Christiana madagascariensis, Baill. 

 Both authors, indeed, quote Hildebrandt, 3262, as a type specimen, 

 tfaker (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv., p. 299), when describing 

 Speirostyla, wrote « This seems to have quite as good a right to be 

 placed in Tihaceae as in Sterculiaceae," and Schumann subse- 

 quently placed it in Tiliaceae beside Christiana, from which he 

 distinguished it by the stigmas (Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 



JN.acntr. H **/**)• Tbere w n <> essential difference between the 

 stigmas of Speirostyla and Christiana, however, the actual form 

 being intermediate between the figures in Martius, Fl. Bras. 



U°,iinr! 1 ' , T? ? ?'^ t \? 5 ' 1 aud Journ ' Linn - Soc - vo1 - xxv. t. 50. 

 S. Hl8t - P t Mada |' t- < Sl ^ an excellent figure. The 



«!^SS?i^ d - gUre v %**«>%*» are somewhat misleading, 



w 3 1. g , ln i reahty f ree fvom one another <^ept ^ the 



own h* S VUleS h °vu g 80litary in oach cell » as indeed they are 



^?accX"rBamt nUmber ° f ™^ ™™ ^ ** to 



Bof Ma^ad^tab^om' ?^ [Leguminosae-Dalbergieae], in 

 i^cie^'^o^^t?^ 116 .^ 1 ^ 0116 ^ lena et habitatione ; 



efSycfeS^^i^ 1 ^ ab ea tamen foliolis »*™™ h ™ 



5ifottata a .iobni? re F?V? * laber ' Foli « ^iliter petiolata, 

 h>nga o btusa lnWnS etl °i?^ te ™ ia ' oMcmgo-obovata 5-7 cm. 

 reSculat" k ? v,fifn Pa ldl °r > Venis llltimis minutissime 

 EtaSK-w^? il^J^^^ 6 similes > in Paniculasangustas 



^^^^^OahST 9 ? i9P ° S f ; PedicelU gradle8 ' 

 Petala unguicuhla ,m J Ux t trunc atus, intus pubescens. 



alae apice nSae^ COm P icatum > lamina basi bicristata ; 

 itamii* aeqW ]Lu2% aT lirsutum > 2-ovulatum ; stylo 



circiter 4 cV LguT corlaceu^^T *"** Vi8Um > *™* 

 semper?) ovale ntrinn^f fl m ' Slabrum, monospermura (an 



anguste Ltis-D^l IIJ% ^ 1 S? tam ! a f ce acu tum, suturis 

 non Benth. oblonga, Hance m Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 10, 



