Puate 2758. 
TRIPLOCHITON JOHNSONI, C. W. Wright. 
TRIPLOCHITONACEA. 
. Johnsoni, C. H. Wright; a 7. scleroxyloni, K. a floribus 
hermaphroditis, antheris bilocularibus, ovulis 4—6, differ 
Arber alta, ligno molli. Folia palmatim 5—lobata, 5 poll. longa, 
minuta ; petiolus 3 poll. lorgus. icule axillares, petiolis breviores, 
cymose, circa ore, bracteis deciduis ? a partitus, 7 lin 
, inque dense appresseque rufo-sericeus ; | ti, acuti, 
valvati, patentes. Petala obcordata, basi late unguiculata, 7 li ga, 
a, utrinque pilosa, alba, bas rophorum 
1-2 lin gum, pubescens. Stamina circa 20 ; filamenta filiformia 
libera vel basi brevissime connata; anthere 1 lin. longs, dorsifix, 
oblonge, curvatee, loculis 2 Anduplioatis demum e connectivo revolutim 
dehiscentibus ; staminodia 5 , late ovalia, concava, glumacea, uninervia, 
glaberrima, 1h lin. longa. "Carpella 5, ad apicem gynandrophori, a 
agecageg velata, libera, oblique lanceolata, 1 lin. longa, rufo-pube- 
centia ; stylus subulatus ; ovula 4-6, ad suturam ventralem affixa. 
West Arrica. Gold Coast: Anum, W. H. Johnson, 813. Native 
Owa wa.’ 
name ‘ 
K. Schumann (in Fng/. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. p. 330) gives as a deecnagt 
of this genus ‘antheris monothecis,’ but in the present plant the two 
flat cells of the longitudinally curved Seance are folded Saeirs so as 
to lie side by side ; dehiscence takes place by longitudinal slits close to 
the connective on the ventral side, and the wall of both anther-cells 
I consider it better to place this plant in ck aastatac than to make it 
the type of a new genus.—C. H. Wricut 
Fig 1, gynandrophore bearing stamens and scarious staminodes which conceal the 
Hii Te with portions of calyx and two petals at the base; 2, front view of a petal; 
3, side view of the subpeltate ret of the petal; 4, an anther; 4, cross section of 
the same; 6, pistil and some of the scarious staminodia; 7, a carpel in longitudinal 
section. "All, except fig. 2, rot ita 
