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Whilst the plate and letterpress for Peglera were prepared for 
the Icones Plantarum, 1 independently dealt with Nectaropetalum 
Kaessneri, which had also been selected for publication in the Lcones. 
the figures of Peglera capensis and Nectaropetalum Kaessneri were 
so similar as to suggest that the species figured under those names 
were actually congeneric. Further examination left no doubt on 
that point, and Peglera capensis becomes now Nectaropetalum 
eapense. Nectaropetalum, originally described by Engler as a genus 
of Linaceae, was transferred (Icones Plantarum, t. 2840) to Ery- 
throxylaceae, an order not previously taken into consideration by 
Mr. Boodle in connection with Peglera. He extended, therefore, 
his comparative studies of the Peglera material to Nectaropetalum 
and the Erythrozylaceae, with the result that the generic identity of 
Peglera and Nectaropetalum and their place in Erythroxylaceae may 
now be considered as well established. r. Boodle’s account is 
given below, whilst a revised description of Nectaropetalum and a 
clavis of the species is added here as a summary of our present 
knowledge of the genus. 
Nectaropetalum, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxxii, p. 109 
(emend.). Erythroxylo affine, sed ovario 2-loculari, stylo simplice 
stigmata 2 recurva gerente, petalorum squamis maxime reductis vel 
plane obsoletis et filamentorum tubo brevi vel brevissimo distinctum. 
Calyx 5-(rarius 4-) partitus; segmenta triangularia, acuta, 
raeter margines crassiuscula, valvata (?). Petala 5{rarius 4-) 
unguiculata, calyce pluries longiora, lamina ima_ basi squamula 
biloba minuta cum ea foveolam formante instructa vel nuda, sed ab 
ungue textura distincta. Stamina petalorum numero duplo basi 
in tubum brevém vel annulum connata ; filamenta episepala breviora, 
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epipetala longiora ; antherae dorso infra medium affixae.  Ovarium 
acutae, longitudinaliter striatae. Flores axillares, solitarii ve 
pauci fasciculati, brevissime pedicellati, ut videtur albidi_ vel 
florescentes. 
pecies 3, in East and South Africa from Mombasa (Bome 
River), to the Kentani District in Transkei, Cape Colony. 
~ Petala 3 cm. longa, ad laminae basin fovea in- 
structa ... vi “ve vee ves .. 1. NW. Carvalhoy 
Petala 0°7-1°3 em. longa. 
Folia magis minusve elliptica, obtusa vel sub- 
acuta ; petala ad laminae basin squama 
biloba instructa, quam stamima longiora ; 
filamenta basi in tubum brevem connata... 
Folia utrinque acuta vel apice acutissima ; 
petala nuda, quam stamina breviora, fila- 
menta ima basi in annulum connata we 3. NV, capense 
2. N. Kaessneri. 
