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membranaceo-seariosa, reticulato-venosa, etuberculata, sed basi ad 
sinuin callo parvo reflexo truncato vel obtuso instructa, Achaenium 
acute vel subalato-trigonum, laeve, brunneum, faciebus lanceolatis 
subacuminatis. 
ouTH Arrica. Natal: Itafaman, Wood, 644; near Lam- 
Lydenburg, 5400 ft., Burtt Davy, 7625. 
This species is also allied to the North American 2. hymenosepalus, 
Torr., but is less stout, with smaller leaves, and the venation of the 
frniting sepals is entirely different. As in the case of R. cordatus, 
Desf, the root of R. Woodii may be tuberous ; its leaves and stems 
are often marked with bright red or scarlet patches formed of minute 
papillae, caused by a minute mite, probably some species of 
Lriophyes. 
Arbor ramulis glabris teretibus. Folia obovato oblonga vel 
oblonga, acuminata, basi obtusa, 10-15 em. lon a, 5-6 cm. lata, 
tenuiter coriacea, in gemmis rufo-pubescentia, citissime glabrata, 
nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-8, petiolo 12-18 mm. longo flexuoso. 
Racemi umbellarum mascularum graciles, 3-5 cm. longi, ramis 
intimis 4-6 mm. longis, receptaculo discoideo 2-4 mm. diametro 
10-25 flores gerente, pedicellis tenuibus ad 4mm. longis. Perianthium 
3-fidum, 15 mm. longum. Antherac 3, 0°3 mm. longae, stipiti 
aequilongae. Flores foeminei ignoti. Infructescentiae ex axillis 
ojorum summorum ortae, 5-85 cm. longae, glabrae ; umbellae 
solitariae vel paucae in racemos dispositae, fructus 2-3 tantum 
maturantes, pedicellis subtenuibus 1-1-2 cm, longis. Pertanthium 
persistens, 3-partitum, fere 2 mm. longum. Fructus ovoideo- 
oblongus vel ellipsoideo-oblongus, basi angustior, acutus vel 
subacutus, 2°5-3 cm, Ongus, pericarpio tenui glabro. Semen 
ellipsoideo-oblongum, testa brunnea laevi, endospermate fere ad 
centrum ruminato, 
EST Avrrica. French Guinea: Farana, in gallery woods, 
Chevalier, 13178, 13425, 
Te eee 
XX.—PEGLERA AND NECTAROPETALUM. 
O. Starr and L. A. Boovte. 
The genus Peglera was described by Dr. H. Bolus in the Kew 
Bulletin for 1907, p. 362, and placed near Weihea and Cassipourea 
In Rhizophoraceae, figure of it was subsequently published in 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum, t. 2841. In the accompanying text it 
was pointed out that Dr. Bolus was not quite satisfied that he had 
ici Aor although the anatomy of Peglera agreed in some respects 
with that of the Stmarubaceac, it differed in others, ‘ 
