PLATE 2699. 
GYMNOPODIUM FLORIBUNDUM, folje. 
PoLyGonNAce®. Tribe TRIPLARIDEA. 
gers Ra Rolfe (genus novum). Flores hermaphroditi. Peri- 
anthir segmen , 3 exteriora majora, carina exalata, 3 interiora 
affixa, 6 exteriora ad ‘margines Derianthit segmentorum was riorum 
ovate. Ovarium glabrum ; styli breves, filiformes, apice ’ capitato- 
stigmatosi ; ovulum erectum, subsessile. Mua acute trigona, perianthio 
aucto clauso inclusa ; semen trigonum ; embryo magnus, cotyledonibus 
orbicularibus 
G. floribundum, Rolfe (species wnica). Frutew ramosissima, ramis 
gracilibus subflexuosis parce pilosis. olia alterna vel fasciculata, 
breviter petiolata, cuneato-oblonga, obtusa Sore: reticulato-venosa, 
3-14 poll. gd 3-6 lin. lata ; petiolus | 1-14 lin. longus ; ochrea 
brevissima. _ fae a beg interdum parce ramosi, laterales et 
tee, pa 
ores pa ie erection pedicellati. Perianthii segmenta 
biseriata, exteriora ovata, acuta, 1 lin. longa, fructifera ad 5 lin. longa, 
reticulato-venosa, interiora lanceolata, acuta, minora. Stamina inclusa. 
Nusx 3 lin. longa. 
British Honpuras : Manatee, pine ridges, #. J. F. Campbell, 60. 
An interesting monotype, allied to Podopterus, Humb. et Bonpl., of 
which it has much the general appearance, but differs in its wingless 
pedicels, and in having an additional whorl of three stamens, which are 
situated opposite the concave faces of the ovary, and within the outer 
series of six.—R. ALLEN Rowre. 
Fig. 1, a flo sig te a petal with two stamens of the outer bmn — " = 
margins at the ; 3,a —_— and the three stamens of the whor 
ovary in Distesial section, 5, in transverse section; 6, the pares in ad 
section, showing the embryo. dul enlarge cd. 
