PuaTe 2789. 
GRISOLLEA THOMASSETII, Hemsl. 
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OuacacE®. Tribe Icactnes. 
. Thomassetii, Hems/. (sp. nov.) ; a G. myrianthea, are of 89 
sola adhuc cognita, foliis major as uci oblongis venis primari 
lateralibus paucioribus, inflorescentia mascula multo minore recedit. 
r 30-pedalis, dioica, ut videtur sempervirens, ramis floriferis 
crassiusculis foliisque glabris. /olia alterna, exstipulata, petiolata, 
coriacea, oblonga vel interdum subovata, 3- onga, sed szpius 
oll. longa, apice obtusa vel rotundata, integ mascult 
5-7-meri sed seepius 5-meri, minuti, in parvas axillares puberu- 
las dispositi, sessiles, bracteis minutis ; calyx ec cupularis, sepius 5- 
dentatus, dentibus valvatis obtusis ciliolatis ; ; petala minuta, squami- 
formia, calycis dentibus isomera et iis alterna ; stamina a seepius 5, calycis 
dentibus opposita iis triplo longiora, filamentis crassis carno osis, eri 
extrorsis birimosis ; pistillodium minutum, globosum 
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circiter 3 lin. longum, apice glabrum, carnosum, papilloso-verrucosum, 
stylo brevi coronatum, 1-loculare ; ‘placenta ab loculi apice pendula, 
biovulata. /ructus drupaceus, anguste compresso-ovoideus, 1-1} poll. 
Semen unicum perfectum pendulum, loculo conformum ; testa tenuis ; 
albumen copiosum. £mbryo minutus, hilo proximus ; radicula crassa, 
conica, quam cotyledones rectz triplo longior 
SEYCHELLES : not uncommon in the forest on the Cascade Estate, 
Mahé, H. P. Thomasset, 31 and 54. 
ge late Dr. cogye founded this genus ig setstars vol. iv. pp. 211- 
219, tt. 3 & 4) on specimens collected by Boivin in the islands of 
hie and Nossibé, west of ‘ea age Mr. Thomasset, who is to be 
congratulated on the number of noveltie d in the virgin 
vegetation of his estate, first sent male Pde only, and we were un- 
able to say to what order they might belong. Baillon (Histoire des 
lantes, vol. 336) de re es the Madagascar species as ‘arbor 
adspectu festa al beted nonnullarum,’ and that was our first impres- 
