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Plate 2444. 



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XYMALOS MONOSPORA, BailL 



MOXIMIACE^. 



Xymalos, Baillon in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. L 650 (1887) : (char, 

 hie emend.). Flores ^loioi. Perianthium Q. ^ 4-6-partitum, segmentis 

 rotundatis ovatis v, lanceolatis, ingequilateralibus, extus hirtis. Stamina 

 oo ; antherse subsessiles late ellipticpe v. obovate, inappendiculate, 

 biloculares, longitudinaliter deliiscentes. Ovarii rudimentura 0. Peri- 

 anthium &. $, 4- v. 3-fidum v. -lobulatum, segmentis rotundatis; 

 staminodia non vidi. Ovarium obovoideum v. turbinatum, glabrum, 

 1-IocuIare ; ovulura solitarium, pendulum, anatropum ; stigma eras- 

 sum, sessile, discoideum v. subhemisphaericum. Fructtts su 

 V. oblique obovoideus, stigmate coronatus ; pericarpio tenuiter v^.x^^^u, 

 laevi. Sernen compressuni, ellipsoideum, albuminosum ; embryo parvus, 

 radicula crassa, obtusa, cotyledonibus rotundatis planis oblique appli- 

 citis sequilonga,— Frutex v. arbuscula ramulis teretihits foliisque 

 (jlahris. Folia sii.bcjfposita, tenuiter coriacea, ovali- v. ohlanceolato- 

 ohlonga acuta v. obtusa^ basi in 2yetiolum angustata, integra v. apicem 

 versus^ reparido- v. distanter serrato-dentata sub lente minutissiine 

 pellucido' punctata^ casta subtus et nervis primariis validis. Flores in 

 racemos axillares peiiolo longiores pubescentes disjyositi; bractece ovatce 

 V. oblongce ; flores $ scepe l-2'hracteolati. 



X.^monospora, Baillon, Lc. ; Xylosma ? monospora, Harv. Thes. 

 Cap, il 52. tab. 181 ; Toxicodendron acutifolium, Benth. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 214. 



Hab. South Africa: Natal, Cooper, Gerrard, Wood; Transvaal, 

 J^elson; Orange Free State, Cooper; Kaffraria, Barber; Victoria 

 East, Tyson ; Amatola range, Hb. MacOwan. 



Folia 4-4| poll, longa, 1-lf poll lata ; petiolus |--| poll. 1. 



Of this anomalous plant, originally published by Prof. Harvey witli 

 doubt as a species of Xyfosma, seeds were received last year from 

 Prof. Macowan of Cape Town, which complete our knowledge of it, 

 and confirm my original impression, noted upon Mr. Cooper*^s speci' 

 mens received many years ago, that its affinity is rather with 

 Monimiacece than with either Flacourtiacem or Fuphorbiacece, with 

 wJiich it has been hitherto associated. Its nearest ally known to me 



