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pedunculi thang 4—6 mm. longi et rhachides pedunculis brevi- 
oribus adpresse pubescentes ; pedicelli masculi capillares, glabri, 
> mm, longi, prope basin articulati. Calyx masculus viridis, eke 
in Palubasire depresso-globosus minute apiculatus ; lobi saepius 4, 
nonnunquam 5, casu 3, fere ad basin usque partiti. Stamina nunc 
15, nunc 18, exteriora 9, cetera centralia; filamenta antherarum 
loculos subglobosos exeodentia ; elandulae complanatae, ambitu 
ovatae, albo-ciliatae ; exterio 6 in urceolum lobatum extra- 
staminalem connatae, ceterae ee elas Flores feminei et 
fructus ignoti. 
TropicaL Arrica. Mozamb. Dist.: Nyassaland; Chiromo, 
Scott Elliot, 2795. 
__ A very distinct species, in foliage and armature most resembling 
FE. natalensis, with which it also agrees in the shape and arrange- 
ment of the receptacular glands, but from which it is readily 
distinguished by ci minute green flowers with fewer stamens, and 
by its smaller leave 
1199, Space ene Prain ee ee ; 
affinis FE. aculeatae, Benth., oribus majoribus r is laxifloris, 
calyce maris semper sepattito, pedicellis prope naiit "articolada, 
staminibus numerosioribus glandulas receptaculi manifeste excedenti- 
bus erage extrastaminalibus et staminibus seriei extimae 10 
nec 5 differ 
Frutex, iti eres eee parce pubescentibus cito 
glabris, basi annulo perularum deciduarum cinctis, cortice pallido 
fonticellato. Folia breviter pidtialitie ovato-lanceolata, acuta vel 
obtusa, basi angustata, margine distanter glanduloso - crenato- 
dentata, tenuiter membranacea, 2°5-4 cm. longa, 1°25-2 cm. lata, 
laete viridia, opaca, utrinque glabra; nervi dsctnaaens 2-3, 
adscendentes, indistincti ; petiolus glaber, supra eee 2-3 
mm. longus ; stipulae in aculeos conicos pungentes 2 mm. longos 
mutatae. Flores parvuli, racemosi, racemis masculis sixillaribus 
pedunculo gracili glabro 1-2 em. longo paucifloro, pedicellis 
capillaribus glabris supra basin articulatis 3-5 mm. longis, bracteolis 
ovatis acutis minimis saepissime 2- 3-floris vel nonnunquam 1I-floris. 
Calyx albidus, tenuiter membranaceus, in alabastro subsphaerico 
minute apiculato clausus dein profunde valvatim 4-partitus, lobis 
ovatis acutis. Stamina circiter 30, exteriora 10, cetera centralia, 
glandulis juxtastaminalibus ovatis piligeris intermixta glandulisque 
extrastaminalibus 10 piligeris annulatim circumcincta; filamenta 
antherarum locellis subglobosis longiora.. Flores jfemineit adhuc 
ignoti. 
Soutu Arrica. Natal: Inanda, Mt. Edgecumbe, Wood, 1089 ; 
Mt. Moreland, 150 m., Wood, 1391; without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 81. 
_ The only other species of this genus hitherto known with 
deciduous as cales and much enlarged stipular spines is 
