ICONES PLANTARUM. 77 



Plates 1298, 1299. 



NEOBOUTONIA APBICANA, Jiludl Arj. 



EurnoEBiACEyE, Tribe Ckotone^. 



M. africana, Muell Arg, in DO. Prod, xv, II. 892, foHis subtus pubo 

 minuta stellulata canescentibus, paniculse mascula) ramulis longis laxi- 

 floris, ~ 



Wi 



furth. 



Frutex elatus v. arlor 15-20-pedalis, ramis infloresceDtia et foliorum 

 pagina inferiore pilia minutis stellulatis conspersis. Folia altema, 

 longiuscule petiolata, inferiora late orbiculato-cordata fere pedalia, 

 summa late ovata, omnia integerrima, pennivenia et transverse venu- 

 losa, basi 5-nervia, supra glabra, subtus pallide canescentia. Paiiiculce 

 in axillis summis simpliciter ramosns, masculge ssepe pedales, fcemineae 

 2^-polHcares, superiores foliis subtendentibus valde reductis pani- 

 culam termmalem basI foliatam efficiunt. Flores masculi parvi, secus 

 ramulos dissite glomerati, foemmei sub quaque bractea solitaril. 

 Cahjx S in alabastro globosus clausus, per antbesin in segmenta 

 2-3 fissus. Stamina 15-20, filamentis brevibus crassiusculis erectis ; 

 antherae erectfe, prope basin affixse, loculis introrsum parallelis. Ovarii 

 radimentum 0. Calyx $ alte 5-fidus, sub ovario patens, segraentis 

 prius leviter imbricatis. Ovariiim globosum, stellato-tomentosum. 

 Styli breves, rigiduli, recurvo-patentes, 2.parfciti. Frnctus junior 

 globosus non sulcatus, 



Pu^TE 1298.— Male specimen. Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Flower^ expanded, 3. StHinen, 



front and back view. 



Plate 1299,— Female specimen. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Styles seen from al>ove, 3. 

 Ovary, transverse section, represented as in the specimens laterally conipressed, pro- 

 bably in drying. Both taken from Scbweinfurth's specimens, with which \V elwitsch s 



male specimens agree perfectly. .. -n • » t i ^ 



The Conceveiba africana, Muell Arq. iii DC, Prod. XY. u- 897, from Princes Island 

 West Tropical Africa, Mann, of which the male only is known, is evidently a second 

 species of Neobmtonia, in which I can discover no difference from K ajrwaiia, 

 except in the hispid petioles and principal veins of the leaf underneath, and the 

 shorter branches of the panicles which, as in K africaua, form a large terminal 

 compound stellatcly tomentose panicle. The specific name afrtcana being pre- 

 occupied in the genus, I have called it N. Mannii. I cannot conceive >he gromids 

 upon which it was referred to the American genus Conceveiba, from which it differs 

 as much in habit as in character, — G. Bentilvm. 



