Molinaea. 1127 



discus tomentosus; germen tomentellum; fructus e late obovato in stipitem brevem 

 contractus, trialato-lobatus, subglabratus, endocarpio glabro. 



Rami 2 — 3 mm crassi, albicantes, lenticellis notati. Folia 20 — 25 cm longa; foliola 

 10 — 15 cm longa, sicca plus minus fuscescentia, margine interdum revoluta, utrinque 

 reticulato-venosa, nervis lateralibus arcuato-adscendentibus. Sepala interiora 4 — 6 mm 

 longa, exteriora minora. Petala sepala aequantia, ex obovato cuneata, basi puberula, 

 esquamata. Stamina 8; filamenta pubescentia; antherae pilosiusculae. Germen 3-alato- 

 lobatum, stylo longiore extus 3-stigmatoso instructum. Fructus fere 2 cm longus, 

 dense transverse striatus. 



In insula Mauritius: Riebe! (Hb. Ventenat, nunc Deless.; fl. et t'r.); id.? (Hb. 

 Labillard., nunc Webb.; fl. et fr.). 



2. M. arborea Gmel. I.e. (1791) 611, emend., i. e. ad stirpem arboream restricta, 

 altera a Juss. arbuscula dicta, i. e. M. cupanioid., excl.; Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. 

 Akad. IX. (1879) 537 n. 513 etc., p. 650 (651) et in Palacky, Gat. PI. Madag. V. (1907) 

 54; — non Blanco, cfr. Guioa PerroUetii Radlk. — M. (sp.) Gomm. ed. Juss. 1. c. (1789); 

 Lam. 111. Gen. t. 305 f. 2 (circ. 1792). — M. alternifolia Willd. 1. c. (1799) 329; Poir. 

 in Lam. 111. Gen. II. (circ. 1817) 440 t. 305 f. 2 (circ. 1792). — Cupania alternifolia 

 Persoon, Syn. I. (1805) 413; Smith in Rees, Cyclop. X. (1808) 6; Poir. in Lam. Enc. 

 Suppl. II. (1811) 418; DG. Prodr. I. (1824) 613!; Camb. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat. 

 XVIII. (1829) 28; Don, Gen. Syst. I. (1831) 668; Bojer, Hort. Maurit. (1837) 56; 

 Voigt, Hort, suburb. Galcut. (1845) 94; Wall. Gat. (1847) n. 8068. — Cupania laevis, 

 non Pers., DG. 1. c. 613, quoad specim. descript. et in obs. »v. sicc. sine fr.« indicat., 

 in Hb. Prodr. servat.!, excl. cit. Lam. et Willd.; Spreng. Syst. II. (1825) 221, quoad 

 syn. Molinaea alternif.\N.', Baker, Fl. Maurit. etc. (1877) 58, quoad syn. M. alternif.; 

 Gordemoy, Fl. Reunion (1895) 380, quoad syn. Cup. alternif. Pers. — Callidrynos (sp.) 

 Neraud 1. c. (1826) 29, fide specim. a Neraud lecti, in Hb. Deless. servati! — Matayha 

 guianensis, non Aubl., Gamb. 1. c. (1829) 37, quoad obs. »v. sicc. in Hb. Juss.« (n. 11365!), 

 ad specim. Aubletianum verisimiliter in ins. Maurit. lect, spectantem, cf. Radlk. in 

 Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. IX. (1879) 535 n. 473, p. 638, 653. — Cupania borbonica 

 (errore adject. est »DG.«) Lanessan, PI. utiles etc. (1886) 199. — Molinaea laevis (non 

 Willd., cfr. M. cupan.) Baill. in Grandid. Hist. Madag. t. 242 (1893?). - Vulgo: Bois 

 de Gaulette, fid. schedae speciminis borbonici; Gaulette blanc t. Lanessan 1. c. — 

 Rami teretiusculi, e minutim tomentello glabrescentes ; folia paripinnata; foliola 

 plerumque 6 — 10, sat magna, lanceolata vel obovato-oblonga (interdum subovalia), 

 apice rotundata, basi cuneata, subsessilia, integerrima, coriacea (interdum crasse), 

 utrinque glabra, plurifoveolata, (sub microscopio) dense pellucido-punctata, in pagina 

 superiore hypodermate instructa; rhachis nuda; inflorescentiae axillares, foliis plerumque 

 breviores, paniculas amplas efficientes, densiflorae, e cincinnis vel dichasiis compositae, 

 minutim tomentellae; calyx dense (rarius laxe) flavide sericeo-tomentosus; discus 

 tomentosus; germen stipitatum, adpresse tomentosum; fructus late obovoideus, trialato- 

 lobatus, apice subtruncatus, basi in stipitem longiorem abrupte contractus, subglabratus, 

 endocarpio glabro; semen (immaturum) basi arillatum, arillo in processum sigmoideum 

 protracto. 



Rami inflorescentias gereutes circ. 2 mm crassi, adultiores lenticellati. Folia 

 10 — 25 cm longa; foliola 5 — 13 cm aequantia, margine plus minus revoluta, nitidula, 

 sicca fuscescentia, reticulato-venosa, nervis lateralibus arcuato-adscendentibus; rhachis 

 supra complanata bisulcatave. Bracteae parvae, 1 mm non superantes, subulatae; 

 pedicelli 1,5 — 3 mm longi. Sepala 4 — 5 mm longa (exteriora minora), subpetaloidea, 

 suborbicularia, concava. Petala 4 mm longa, late ovata, basi densius pubescentia, 

 marginibus inferne inflexis. Stamina 6 — 8 mm longa; filamenta inferne densius pubes- 

 centia, filiformia, saepe spiraliter torta. Germen triquetrum. Fructus circ. 2 cm longus. 



In insulis Mascarenis nee non Madagascar: Hildebrandt n. 3314!; Guyot 

 n. 291! (Ile Bourbon, fr.; Hb. Berol.); Gommerson! (Hb. Brown-Kew.); ?! (ins. 



