Plate 2542. 



G-LOSSOSTEMON BRUG-UIERI, Desf. 



STERCULIACEiE. Tribe DOMBEYE.E. 



G. Bruguieri, Desf. in Mem. Mas. Par. iii. p. 238, t. 11; species 



unica. 



Ilerba i perennis,' robusta, undique stellato-pubescens, scabra, ramis 

 crassis angulatis canaliculars, internodiis brevissimis. Folia alterna, 

 crassa, papyracea, longe petiolata, rotundatocordata, absque petiolo 

 usque 10 poll, diametro, multilobulata atque dentata, valide palminer- 

 via, scabrida ; petiolus teres, crassus, 2-6 poll, longus. Stipulce lineari- 

 filiformes, flaccidse, circiter pollicares, persistentes. Flores 'rosei,' 

 pentameri, racemoso-corymbosi, corymbis quam folia brevioribus ; 

 pedunculi crassi, axillares, basi petiolo breviter adnati, interdum 

 fructum maturum et flores (an ejusdem setatis ?) gerentes ; pedicelli 

 graciles, bracteolis elongatis filiformibus persistentibus. Sepala ovato- 

 lanceolata, acuta, dense pubescentia, quam petala dimidio breviora. 

 Petala lanceolata, caudato-acuminata, longitudinaliter venosa. Stamina 

 srepe circiter 30 staminodiis 5 ligulatis petala alternantibus plus 

 minusve adhserentia, filamentis glabris incequalibus. Ovarium 5-locu- 

 lare, multiovulatum, dense echinulatum atque stellato-pubescens, f 



stylis brevibus in unum connatis. Capsula magna, cum spinis circiter 





3 poll, longa, spinis rigidis armata, demum loculicide dehiscens (?), 

 multisperma. Semina conoidea, circiter 4 lin. longa, testa Crustacea ; 

 albumen tenuissimum ; cotyledones foliaceae, revoluto-conduplieatae, 

 radicula brevi. — Dombeya arabica, Baker in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2460. 



South Arabia : Interior of Hadramaut, Hirsch, 170. Mesopo- 

 tamia : in the desert around Kerkuk and at the foot of Mount Tell 

 Kokab, Haussknecht ; Aucher ; barren sandstone in the Hamrir range, 

 between 60 and 70 miles north of Bagdad, Mockler. Western Persia : 

 Dizful, Loft us. s 



Kew is indebted to Rear-Admiral R. W. Blomfield for excellent j 



specimens of this interesting plant, collected, or procured, by Colonel j 



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