M odder, H. B. M. Consul General at Bagdad. Kipe fruit was pre- 

 viously unknown. The plant figured in plate 2460 as a Dombeya, 

 proves, as Dr. G. Schweinfurth pointed out to us, to be a young state 

 of Glossosternon, which, however, is better placed in the Pom bey eie than 

 in the Buettneriese. It has none of the special floral characteristics of 

 the latter group, and the fruit is not like that of any genus of either 

 group, though it probably has the double dehiscence, loculicidal, and 

 eventually septicidal, of Dombeya itself. 



This plant bears the name of moghath at Bagdad, and some account 

 of its uses will shortly appear in the Kevo Bulletin.— W. Botting 

 Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a sepal ; 2, a petal ; 3, a staminode and adherent stamens ; 4, anthers; o, 



ovary ; 6, one of its numerous appendages, some of which develop into hard spines 



on the fruit; 7, cross section of the ovary; 8, a seed ; 9, embryo intact; 10, cross 



section of the same with cotyledons partly unrolled; 11, embryo unrolled. All 

 enlarged. 



