Cossignia. 1339 



Species 3, quarum 2 insularum mascarensium, 1 insulae Novae Galedoniae incolae. 



Genus inter Sapindaceas anomospermas nomophyllas Capsula non inflata coriaceo-crustacea 

 maxime affinis generi Llagunoa, a quo differt flore petaligero parum irregulär! vel regulär! et indu- 

 mento fasclculato-stellato; hac re inter Sapindaceas anomospermas convenit cum generibus anomo- 

 phyllis Harpullia, Arfeuillea et Xanthoceras, quorum pili stellati vero (ut et illi generis Euphoria) 

 nunquam stipitat! evadunt. 



Conspectus sectionum et specierum. 

 Sect. I. Eucossignia Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. VIII. (1878) 272 et in 

 Engl. u. Pr. 1. c. : Discus unilateralis, petala 4. 



A. Folia 3-foliolata vel 5-foliolato-pinnata; foiiola ex subobovato 

 cuneata; calyx fructifer erectus; fructus major, breviter 

 ellipsoideus \. C. triphylla. 



B. Folia impari-pinnata, 2 — 3-juga, raro 1-juga; foiiola ob- 

 longa, utrinque subacuta; calyx fructifer reflexus; fructus 



minor, subobcordatus 2. C pinnata. 



Sect. IL Melicopsidium (Baill.) Radlk. 11. cc. (Genus Melicopsidium Baill. 11. cc): 

 Discus regularis, petala 5. 



Folia 3-foliolata 3. C. trifoliolata. 



Sect. I. Eucossignia Radlk. 



1. C. triphylla Gomm. ed. Lam. 1. c; Willd. 1. c; Bory de St. Vinc. Voy. dans 

 les quatre princip. iles des mers d'Afrique II. (1804) 324, annot. 1; Radlk. 1. c. (1895) 

 354 f.l79. — C. Commersoni Raeuschel, Nomencl. ed. III. (1797) 103. — C.borhonica 

 DG. Prodr. I. (1824) 614, part., excl. syn. C. pinnata Lam., ut apud aut. seqq.; Spreng., 

 Gamb., Don 11. cc; Desfont. Tableau de l'ecole d'Hist. nat. ed. III. (1829) 230; Bojer, 

 Hort. Maurit. (1837) 56; Voigt, Hort. Galcut. suburb. (1845) 96; Baill. HisL PI. V. 

 (1874) 365 L 393-398, partim reddit. in Engl. u. Pr. 1. c. (1895) L 179 (sphalm. 



C. pinnata dicta); — non Reichenb. in Sieb. FI. Maurit. n.l63, quae C. pinnata. — 

 C.splendens Reichenb. in Sieb. Fl. Maurit. IL n.l62. — C. pinnata, part., Bak. I. c. 

 (1877) praesertim quoad syn. C. triphylla (sphalm. »ternata<<) Lam.; pariter Gordemoy, 

 Fl. de File de la Reunion (1895) 383. — Ruizia aurea Hort. t. Don 1. c. — Arbor parva 

 vel frutex ramis petiolis paniculisque sufferrugineo-furfuraceo-tomentosis; folia 3-folio- 

 lata, rarius 5-foliolato-pinnata; foiiola ex obovato cuneata, apice obtusa vel emarginata, 

 rarius lateralia subacuta, petiolulis brevibus incrassatis suffulta, integerrima, margine 

 revoluta, coriacea, nervo mediano crasso supra complanato subtus valde prominente, 

 nervis lateralibus sat approximatis oblique patulis, supra glabra nee nisi in nervo 

 mediano puberula, splendentia, subtus pilis fasciculato-stellatis cano- vel flavescenti- 

 tomentosa et glandulis microscopicis clavatis obsita; paniculae multiramosae, multi- 

 florae; flores sectionis symmetrici; Stylus breviusculus ; fructus major, breviter ellip- 

 soideus, subfusco-tomentosus, calyce erecto suffultus. 



Arbor parva vel frutex ramosus, 6 — 8 pedes altus. Rami teretes, 5 mm crassi, 

 cortice subfusco. Folia petiolo 1,5 — 4,5 cm longo adjecto 7 — 15 cm longa; foiiola cum 

 petiolulis 2 — 10 mm longis 4 — 10 cm longa, 2 — 4 cm lata. Paniculae 6 — 14 cm longae, 

 superne fere totidem latae; pedicelli 3 — 8 mm longi. Flores expansi diametro 12 mm. 

 Sepala obovata, apice rotundata, brunneo-tomentosa. Petala late ovata, glanduloso- 

 ciliata, puberula. Stamina glabra, 7 mm longa. Stylus 4—5 mm vix superans. Fructus 

 diametro 15 — 18 mm. Semen globosum, diametro 5 mm. 



In insulis Mauritius (praesertim in monte Pouce et ad Trou-aux-cerfs, ex Bak. 



1. c.) et Bourbon (vulgaris in silvis montium a S. Denis ad S. Philippe, ex Gordem. 



1. c): Gommerson! (Ile de France, circ. 1770, fl. et fr.. Hb. Franquev. ; Ile de Bourbon 



au sommet du Mont du Rempart, Lam. I.e.), id.. Hb. Juss. n. 11406!; Bory! (Bourbon, 



A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. (Erabryophyta siphonogama.) 165. 8Ö 



