Plate 2323. 



DIZYGOTHECA NILSSONI, K E. Br. 



Araliace.e. Series Panace.e. 

 ^ Dizygotheca, N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 197. Cnhjx 



.'-dentatus. Petala valvata. Stamina 10, S-adelplia (sod primo 

 fispectu 5-audra, antheris 4-loculanbus) ; filanmnta crassiuscula 

 subulata petalis alterna ; anthera composita late obloiign Kymmptripo 

 4-locuIaris (8-locellata), rimis 4 loiigituilinaliter dehiscens. Ornrivm 

 10-loculare : styli 10, primum panillifonaes. luox stcllatiin uaU'i 



tea 



recurvi 



nrva 



. - , i:-i^ , , X- Ervdus 



fiubglobosus V. ellipsoldeus, baccatus ; pyreiiae a latere compic^^.c, 

 luduratfo, rugulosa^ ; albumen ioquabile.— Arbor , 

 nmphci, inermis. Folia alterna, longe petiolata, diijltata, 9-1 1 -foliuJotn , 

 JulLula elongato-ohlonga leviter sinuata, glabra, apice uhtusa v. rctusa, baxl 

 I'^vitcr angustata, longiuscule petlululata. Iiiflorcscentia tcrminalis, 

 ''linjcui/ofmis, radiis primariis circa 7, medio paucirtuliatis, apice c. 

 Wradiatis, unibellnlis lo?igiuscule pedunadatis, pcdiccUis cum fiorf. 

 contmuis. Petala viridi-lutea. Antheraj albidce. Baccjfi afrovio- 



T^.-^- ,'^^*SOiii, iT. E. Br. I. c. (siJ. unica) ; Plerandra (Pentad Iplandra) 

 Vieillardi, Baill. in Adans. xii. 136. 



" Ja"^^' "'^®^^' C'-iledonia, Pancher, Vieillard {fide Baillon, I c). Caulis 

 /-10-pedalis. Petioli 18-20 poll, longi ; petioluli 2-3 poll, longi. 

 J'otiola 9-13 poll, longa, 2-3i poll. lata. Liflorescentia circa 18-20 

 poll. diam. ; rami primarii 8-9 poll, longi ; pedunculi secundarii 2-3 

 poll, longi ; pedicelli ' poll, longi. Plores f-| poll. diam. Baxxm 

 I poll. diam. 



This interesting plant, of which a living specimen was received at 



1«qT "^ ^^^^ ^^^"^ ^^- Linden, flowered for the first time in November 

 loyi, and was published with a careful description by Mr. N. E. Erown, 

 as constituting a new generic type, in the Kew Bulletin {I. c.) I find, 

 lowever, what I cannot doubt to be the same plant described by 

 ^r- Baillon in his ' Recherches nouvelles sur les Aralic'os ' in 



^^aansoni.i {I. c), as a species of Plerandra, of wliich genus he rr-irdctl 



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