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Brazil : Province of Bahia, /. A. Davy. 



Mr. J. A. Davy, of tlie Companliia Agricola Fazeiida Dumont, 



Riberiao Preto, S, Paulo, Brazil, sent the material from which the 



accompanying plates were prepared, under the name of Manicoba 



Jequie, and we have the authority of Mr. Ule that it is certainly his 



Manihot dicTiotoma, one of the best of the rubber-yielding species of the 



genus. 



For fuller particulars, including cultivation, of M. dichotoma and 



some allied species, see Kew Bulletin, 1908, pp. 59-68.— W. Botting 

 IIkmsley, 



Tabula 287G. 



Pig, 1, a flower-bud ; 2, male flower from which a part of tlie perianth ha8 been 

 removed ; 3, anthers ; 4, cross section of an anther ; 5, disk ; 6, a female flower 

 from which a part of the perianth has been removed* All enlarged. 



Tabula 2877. 



Fig. 1, part of an infrutesccnce ; 2, section of a seed-vessel, showing an empty 

 cell and the ribbed endocarp ; 3, section of a seed-vessel with a seed in position ; 

 4, the endocarp removed from fig, 2, showing the fiinicle ; 5, a young seed ; 6 and 

 7, sections of the same, showing imdeveloped embryo ; 8, undeveloped embryo 

 removed ; Oand 10, mature seed ; 11, asectionof tlie same, showing fully developed 



embryo; 12, embryo removed. AH natural size, except 8 and 12, tvhich are 

 enlarged. 



