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6*5-8 cm. broad. Panicles many-flowered, + 8-12 cm. long ; rachis 

 tomentose, pedicels often longer than the flower. Petals 4-5 mm. 

 long. 



Allied to T. Mannii Hook. fil. 



The distinguishing features of this species are the imparipinnate 

 leaves with 6-7 leaflets ; the generally hermaphrodite flowers with 

 ovate petals 4-5 mm. long, in a dense, short, many-flowered panicle 

 8-12 cm. long ; and the hairy disc. 



Nothospondias Talbotii S. Moore sp. nov. Arbor elata, 

 foliolis circa 15 breviter petiolulatis oblongis vel anguste oblongo- 

 ovatis utrinque obtusis basi saepe obliquis papyraceis glabris ; 

 panicuUs quam folia brevioribus minute fulvo-pubescentibus cite 

 glabrescentibus ; cali/cis pubescentis puberulive lobis deltoideis 

 obtusis tube brevioribus ; jjetalis oblongis obtusis sepalis duple 

 longioribus reflexis ; ovario ovoideo oblongo apice truncate pro- 

 minenter 8-sulcato sursum pilose ceterum glabre ; stylo abbreviate 

 apice 4-lebulato. 



Oban ; n. 230. 



Axis of leaf about 7 dm. in length, swollen quite at the base, 

 fistular, purplish-brown, shining. Leaflets usually 15-18 cm. long, 

 4-5 cm. broad, the basal obliquity not very marked and sometimes 

 absent, greenish-brown when dry above, brown below, on both 

 faces palely lucent ; lateral nerves prominent on the underside, 

 usually 6-8 on each side of midrib, openly arched, anfractuose 

 towards the margin of the leaf ; petiolules 5-7 mm. long. Panicle 

 30 cm. or more in length, its branches ascending or patent, and some- 

 times so patent that the panicle may measure nearly 40 cm. across ; 

 main axis as well as branches ancipitous. Flowers 6 to the fascicle 

 or less; bracts about "3 mm. long, like the 3-4 mm. long pedicels 

 tawny pubescent. Functionally male flowers alone seen. Calyx 

 nearly 2 mm. long. Petals 5 mm. long, inserted upon a sort of torus 

 (gland ?) rather more than • 5 mm. in height. Filaments 5-6 nnai. 

 long, the lower portion of each lying in one of the furrows of the 

 ovary. Ovary with its four cells reduced to minute resin-filled 

 cavities, 1"5 mm. long; style "3 mm. long. 



Several flowers were examined, but all proved to be males. The 

 plant may thus possibly be dioecious. 



The short stipe (torus) at the top of which the petals are inserted 

 j)assed unnoticed by Eugler when establishing the genus. This stipe 

 is certainly not present in some of the flowers of N. Staudtii Engl, 

 examined, but in other cases there seems to be a perceptible interval 

 between the insertion of the calycine whorl and the petaline. As 

 iV. Staudtii is polygamous, the variation in question may perhaps 

 have some relation to this fact. It must be added that I failed to find 

 either in N. Staudtii or in N. Talbotii the dilated, deeply 4-lobed 

 disc Engler describes. This, too, would therefore appear to be an 

 inconstant character. 



Irrespective of certain floral points, the two species can be dis- 

 tinguished on sight by the different leaflets. — [S. M.] 



