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4 ICOKES PLINTARUM. 



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rium 4-lobnTn sessile ; stylus termmalis, brevis ; stigma simplex indi- 

 Tisnm ; oTula in loculis gemina, collateralia, pendula. Frudiis siccus, 

 coriaceus, indehiscens, profuiide et late yerticaliter 4- (rarius 3-)a]atus, 

 alls ssepe ineequalibus, rotundatis, nervosis. Semina (In spp. nostris 

 abortiva) * exalbuminosa, elongato-cylindracea v. clavata ; testa tenui ; 

 embryo cotyledonibus a^qualibus plano-convexis ; radicula supera ' (De 

 Mello). — Arhorescens. Folia alterna v. opi^osita^ S-foliolata^ foliolis inte- 

 gris^pelliicido-punctatis. Panictdce scepiiis terminales^ mitltifiorcB ; flores 



jparvi. 



B. eburneum, (7. de Mello mss, in Herb., sp. unica^ ramulis ultimia 

 cum petiolis atque inflorescentia breviter pubescentibus, foliolis mem- 

 branaceis oblongo-elllpticis vel oblanceolatis, plus minus acuminatis, 

 basi angustatis, petiolulatis, integris, glabrescentibuSj intermediolatera- 

 libus ssepius paullo majore, ramis floriferis quam folia breviorlbus, 

 ramulis patentibus, pedicellis brevibus calyce £equilongis v. eodem 

 longioribus, ovario puberolo. 



n. Bras. Eut. p. 142. 



Hab. Campinas, Prov. St. Paulo, Soutb Brazil, SenTior J. G. de 

 Mello, Biedel. Sello, 



Folio^a 3-5 poll, longa; petiolus 1-2^ poll, et petioluli 0-| poll, 

 longi. Flores 1^^2 lin. diam. Fructus 2-21. poll, latus. 



Tills plant was sent to tbe late Mr. Daniel Hanbury by Senbor 

 Joaquim Correa de Mello, and communicated by him to tbe Kew 

 Herbarium, in order that it might be examined, and, if it proved to be 

 the type of a new genus, published under the name o? Balfotirodendron^ 

 ehurneum. Although it is doubtless the plant of Dr. Engler cited 

 above, yet the consolidation of the carpels and the general form of the 

 fruit (which was unknown to Dr. Engler), justify generic separation 

 from EseyihecJci a, and indeed remove it technically to the tribe Toddaliece. 

 Senhor de Mello says the seeds are habitually nearly all abortive. He 

 had to open forty or fifty fruits before he could find a single seed. 

 He describes the wood as nearly white, heavy, and of compact texture. 



— D. Oliver, 



Fig. 1. Flower, a. calyx-lobe, h, petal. 2. Stamen, with anther, back and front. 

 3. Orary and disk, vertical section. 4. Transverse section of ovary, with surround- 

 ing disk. 



* * As I wished to dedicate my plant to Professor Ealfour, I would have preferred 

 to call it Balfouria or Huttonia ; but the former name Laving already been given by 

 R. Brown to a genus of Apocynese, and thejatter by Sternberg, to a fossil Cryptogam, 

 I could not think of any other name which should recall that of the eminent Professor 

 but BalfouTod^ndron! — Senhor de MelJo, in letter to 3Ir. Hanbury, 1874. 



