PLatTeE 2774. 
RHOPALOCARPUS LUCIDUS, Bojer. 
RHOPALOCARPACER. 
quence of the original description having been entirely lost sight of, 
and partly in consequence of all subsequent descriptions being more or 
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existing in the libraries of Kew, the Royal and Linnean Societies, but 
not the one containing Bojer’s description. For a copy of this Kew is 
indebted to M. Casimir de Candolle of Geneva, and it is reproduced 
below with a few corrections of obvious misprints, but otherwise as 
copied. 
‘Rhopalocarpus (Boj.) qui in Hort. Mauritiano nomen Rapolocarpus 
male scrib. Ord. Tiliacearum ! 
‘Rh. alabastris globulosis magnitudine pisi minimi, appresse pilosis. 
Calycis sepala 4, orbiculata, concava, subhyalina, ante evolutionem 
epali iori i i i 
sepalis 2 exterioribus 2 a involventibus, demum reflexis caducis. 
Corolle petala 4, sepalis alterna, linearia, tortuoso plicata, albida, basi 
longe angus uamosa, cum sepalis caduca na circiter 40, 
toro brevi et sub o erasso colorato inserta, fila tis sub- 
patentibus subulatis luteo-viridibus tarde deciduis. Ant medifixe, 
zontales, ovate, utrin tu ee, facie superna plane, 
2-loculares, pollinis globosi ulosis. Ovariwm 1, superum 1-locu- 
lare (rarius 2-locul.) loculis 1-ovulatis, disco Jato, ad ortum albo-pilosum, 
pilis rigidis post is lignosis evadentibus. Stylus stam 
