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TABULA 2987, 
NECEPSIA AFZELII, Prain. 
EvurHorsBisceEAg. Tribus CROTONEAE. 
N. Afzelii, Praon in Kew Bull., 1910, p. 343. Species unica. 
rbor, innovationibus parce puberulis non glabrescentibus. Folia 
utrinsecus 7-10 adscendentes, supra subtusque nervo mediano pro- 
minuli; nervuli subparalleli graciles, subtus prominuli; petiolus 
1-2°5 em. longus, supra canaliculatus, glaber; stipulae lanceolatae, 
rigidae, subscariosae, persistentes, 6 mm. longae. Spicae solitariae, 
axillares, 10-25 cm. longae, nunc androgynae, nunc 1-sexuales ; rhachis 
angulata, rigida, fusco- -puberula ; bracteae glomeratae, dense imbricatae, 
ovatae, acutae, rigidae, striatae, subscariosae, pubescentes, 2-4 m 
longae ; glomeruli flores masculos plures femineo singulo ‘aeitical 
centibus intermixta; antherae introrsae, 2-loculares; loculi ovati, 
connectivo latiusculo breviter producto parum sejuncti. ? Alabastra 
fusco-pubescentes, intus versus basin pubescentes, superne stigmate 
fimbriato-papillosi. 
TroricaL Arrica. Upper Guinea: Sierra Leone, Afzelius, 29. 
Cameroons ; Bipinde, Zenker, 3040. 
e genus Necepsia is perhaps most closely allied to the genus Argo- 
muellera, Pax, but is readily distinguished therefrom by its 2-partite 
styles and its strongly developed hypog ynous disk. As regards its styles 
it comes nearer to the genus Neoboutonia, Mull. Arg., ‘but is readily 
distinguished by the presence of interstaminal glands in the male flower, 
the much more prominent female disk and the penninerved in place of 
palminerved leaves.—D. Pratn. 
Fic. 1, male flower; 2, vertical section of the same; 3, interstaminal glands ; 
4, stamens ; 5, female flower ; 6,a single female perianth-segment ; 7, pistil ; 
8, transverse section of ovary. ‘Ali enlar, ged. 
