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genus Popowia was Le, by Endlicher on a Javan plant, 
Bocagea pisocarpa, l. Jav. Anonac. p. 90, t. 45; 
judging from this plate cud the illustrations of the Asiatic 
species given by King,* it is questionable whether the African 
species really Ts to the same _ and it may be necessary 
to restore the genus C spermum to accommodate them. 
The reasons for the reduction ny the genus Cleistochlamys have 
already been explained. — synonymy and distribution of its 
only species are as follow 
Popowia Kirkii, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 470 
(1862). Cleistochlamys Kirkii, Oliv. in J Pe Linn. Soc. 
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vol. ix. p. 175; FI. Trop. Afr. vol. i. p. 24; Engl. & Diels in 
Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pfl. vol. vi. p. 36, i ‘1 Bs iels in ee 
b 
Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. vol. C. 
Distris. German East ine Betas East Africa. 
P. littoralis, Bagshawe § HE. G. Baker in Journ. Bot., July, 
1908, p. 221. P. Dawei, Diels in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xli, p. 328 
(Aug. 1908). 
Distris. Uganda. 
P. littoralis was based on Bagshawe 629 from Buvuma Island 
and Dawe 191 from Busiro. P. mag y which was published a 
month later, was founded on Dawe 1 
Herbarium are ag young for description. They appear to be 
gyno-monoeciou 
Unona, auct., non Linn. f. 
The type of the genus Unona is U. discreta, Linn. f.,t which 
was based on a tree collected in Surinam by Dalberg, and known 
y the vernacular name ce! Nas Dunal reduced the 
Asiatic genera Melodorum, Lou and Desmos, Lour 
Unona;* and A. P. De Candolle still farther enlarged the scope 
Species: 1, Desmos, with 6 petals, and carpels constricted between 
the seeds; 2, Das sym mascha ot with 3 week and car rpels con- 
number of species as 18, including 4 or 5 acy ones in addi- 
tion fi, those recognised by Hooker and Thomson. 
* Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. iv. pt. 3, tt. 159-165. 
hae P. 270 (1781). 
onac. p. 42 (1817). 
. 485 (18 yee Prodr. vol. i. p. 88, 
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