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on the droppings from May to September and keep the fruit 

 when ripe as food for the ensuing seven months. The branches 

 supply fuel and material for hutting and fencing. The fruit 

 stalks are converted into brooms. Rope called Kumbar is made 

 from the date fibre. The leaves are woven into matting and beds, 

 chairs, cages, coops and household furniture are manufactured 

 from the branches. The trunks are cut up and used in 

 housebuilding and bridge making ; they are also scooped out and 

 converted into water pipes and gutters. 



British Consulate, 



Basra, March 31, 1908. F. E. CROW." 



XL.-DIAGNOSES APRICANAE : XXIV. 



951. Cotylonychia, Stapf, gen. nov. [Sterculiaceae] ; distinctissi- 

 mum, ob flores hermaphroditos, petalorum structuram, androgyno- 

 phorum breyissimum, Buettnerieis accedens,sed sepalorum aestiva- 

 tione primo imbricata mox aperta et staminibus omnibus aequalibus 

 fertilibus diversa. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Sepala 5, libera, primo imbricata, mox 

 aestivatione aperta, herbacea. Petala 5, hypogyna, libera, initio 

 vero contorto-imbricata, mox aestivatione aperta, basi in unguem 

 crassiusculum leviter concavum margine albo-tomentello cinctum 

 contracta, supra in laminam lanceolatam infiexo-apiculatam pro- 

 ducts. Stamina 10, aequalia, omnia fertilia, androgynophoro 

 perbrevi pentagono inserta, episepala ad eius angulos sita ; filamenta 

 nutormia ; antherae oblongae, apiculatae, thecis parallelis 2 con- 

 nectiyo tenui connexis. Ovarium inter stamina sessile, 5-loculare, 

 loculis multiovulatis, ovulis biseriatis ; stylus indivisus ; stigma 

 o-crenatum. Fructus globosus, pericarpio crustaceo, caeterum 

 imperfecte notum. 



C Chevalieri, Stapf (species unica). 



an fj2 Ue V- S^f 1 teretes ' diu virentes, cortice laevi, tenuiter 

 nw ?" i la - "' S laberrimi - Folia alterna, petiolata ; lamina oblongo- 

 \aZ f k r S - subcu ? eat a, apice abrupte breviter acuminata, 9-12 cm. 

 riSJrZ . Gm -' , lata ' P a Pyracea, utrinque concoloria, viridia, 

 fnt '^ ' n . 6 r iS Iateralib ^ utrinque 5-7 obliquis uti venis crebre 

 reoh^ <Z 8 U !r n( l ue Prominulis, ob cellulas mucilagine 

 Fk^o^ZT e P ellucid0 -Punctata ; petiolus 8-9 mm. longus. 

 mv hS2 T^ Cemosi ; r acemus glaber, subsessilis, omnibus 

 £! f °Lf ellulas + mucilagine et acido tannico repletas magis 

 2 cm W* °' P K unctat18 ' rhachi sub anthesi circa 1 cm. demum ad 

 deckluae ? ™ij n- ^^ lineares ™1 subulatae, 1-3 mm. longae, 

 vS£ Ul fahforme ^ ad 1 cm. longi. Sepala lanceolata 

 ^Xd3; i aCUta ^ ad 5 mm - ionga, glabra, fusco-punctata, 

 CTft Pd f l ad ]5 mm longa, ungue disciformi 

 fornica Is Inn ' -"* gl ? bra ob epidermatis cellulas magnopere 

 MS tenu r r ?£ tiDa ' a P icul ° sae P e induplicato-inflexo 

 menta Vf> mm i ' Andro mmophorum vix 1 mm. altum. Fit* 

 5 mm lonou? F T , A *"»™ M-M mm. longae. Stylus 



a£p Z S£ ionZZ (im ^ tnm ^ ^ lobosus ' ad 3 cm - diametr0 ' 



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