Hookeriane. N. O. Tiliacez. 
TAB. DCCLIII. 
Mevaania Leprisuru, Webb. 
Caule fruticoso erecto ramoso, foliis ovalibus rotundisve 
serratis utrinque velutinis junioribus approximatis brevi- 
petiolatis, floribus axillaribus terminalibusve brevissime 
pedunculatis solitariis rarius geminatis, involucelli tri- 
phylli unilateralis foliolis linearibus, staminibus 10-15, 
capsula globosa brevi villosissima. Guill. et Perr. 
Melhania Leprieurii. Webb, Spicil. Gorgon. in Hook. Niger 
Voy. p. 110. Tab. IV, V. 
Brotera Leprieurii. Guillem. et Perr. Fl. Sen. Tent. p. 85. 
Has. St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, Darwin, 
J.D.H. Specimens from the same country are also in 
the Paris Museum. 
Mr. Webb, /. c. has shown that Melhania and Brotera 
are one and the same; and further that the present species is 
perhaps too closely allied to M. velutina, Forsk., or the 
M. incana, Heyne, and that it very much resembles M. ovata. 
e Fig. 1. Unexpanded flower. f. 2. Ditto, with sepals ex- 
a panded :—magnified, 
