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long as the lobes of the limb and hirsute on their dorsal side, with 

 deeply cleft base, in Coptosapelta ; here much longer than the lobes 

 of the limb, glabrous, and with a two-lobed base. Seeds with a 

 regularly fringed wing in Coptosapelta; here surrounded by an entire 

 wing. Finally as regards the habit, the two known species of 

 Coptosapelta arc high-climbing shrubs with fairly large leaves and 

 many-flowered pendulous panicles of small flowers, whereas the new 

 species is a small erect shrub with erect cymes of few, prominent 

 flowers. 



Superficially there seems therefore abundant reason for setting up 

 a new genus for this new species, and on account of the great 

 resemblance in habit, leaves, inflorescence, calyx and corolla, to the 

 American genus Lindenia, which belongs to the tribe of the Ronde- 

 letieae, I gave it the name Lindeniopsis. 



A closer comparison with Coptosapelta fiavescens Kokth, which 

 occurs in Java, induced me, however, to withdraw this genus and 

 to bring the new species under Coptosapelta. Some of the points of 

 difference, deduced from the literature, proved to be the result of 

 errors in the existing descriptions. For instance, the style in C. 

 fiavescens is not quadrangular and hairy as described by Schumann, 

 but, except at the top, cylindrical and glabrous, as in the new 

 species; the calyx is not saucer-shaped, but deeply divided into five 

 divisions, and resembles, except in size, that of the new species, 

 and the mouth of the tube is not hairy, but quite glabrous. In 

 this way a number of the enumerated points of difference already 

 disappear. 



There is further perfect similarity in the structure of the ovary 

 and fruit of the two plants. The very peculiar stigma, which in 

 contradistinction to the neighbouring genera, is not two-lobed, but 

 quite entire, and receives pollen on the stigtnatic papillae which cover 

 the whole of its hairy surface. The anthers are identical in structure 

 and in their mode of attachment. Finally, what is very important, 

 the pollen of the new species has, like that of C fiavescens, an 

 exine with net-shaped thickenings of wide mesh, and, as would 

 appear from the figures in t he Flora brasiliensis, the plant herein 

 differs completely from the other genera of the Hillieae. Having 

 regard to all these similarities, there can be no doubt, that our new 

 species must be included in the genus Coptosapelta, but forms in it 

 a special, monotypic sub-genus. 



As a morphological peculiarity, which confirms the relationship 

 to C. fiavescens, 1 here draw attention to the glands, which alternate 

 with the calyx divisions, and have, as far as I know, not yet been 



