26 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Folia sessilia ovata, patentia, tie pollicaria, plana, carnosula. Pedun- 
culus rater folia terminalis, cum inflorescentia os 
paucos divisus, pan niculam ee pyeitis atam formans. Flores iis L 
microphylli similes nisi paullo majores pedicellis sublongioribus; bractesw 
minime. Perianthii segmenta et labellum omnino J, microphylli. 
Anthera eadem excepto septo loculos dividente obliqno nec transver sO, 
et polliniorum acumina minus ee et (saltem in Boribus exami- 
natis) libera nec visco cennexa.—G. B 
Fig. 1. Flower, rece aN 2. Anther-case with three of the pollen-masses still 
init. 3. Two pollen-masse 
PLate 133 
THESPESIA DANIS, Oliv. 
Matvacea, Tribe Hiziscen, 
. Danis, Oliver, sp. nov. — Frutex vy. arbuscula, ramulis ultimis 
retibus parce lepidotis, 
apical basi cordatis v. late ene parce v. 
Has. _ Ribe, Nyika country, East t tpt Africa; also in the 
Galla crea where it is held as ‘sacred,’ and called ‘Danis. ’"—Rev 
T. Wakefield. 
Folia 23-34 poll. eas submembranacea; petiolus ri poll. — 
Bracteole 4-2 poll. longer. Fructus subglobosus 2-1 . ], diam 
To the same species, I take it, mnst be re 
by Dr. Kirk and Hildebrandt (No. 1929) from the Zanzibar coast. 
: a 
bracteoles, Dr. sa _ from the Somali coast, probably a variety of 
the same.—D. Ox1 
Fig. 1. Calyx and bracteoles. 2. Anthers, 3. Stigma. 4, Transverse section of ovary. 
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