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tened blades that surmount the sort of cap thus formed, are broad, 

 tapering towards the apex, and corrugated in the bud,' where they 

 only touch by their edges. The whole corolla falls off in a single 

 piece. The calyx consists of tliree valvate leaves.^ The stamens are 

 indefinite, surmounted by a truncate prolongation of the connective. 



Jlexalobus rjrandijlonis. 



The number of carpels is also indefinite, but small.* Each ovary con- 

 tains an indefinite number of ovules in two parallel rows,' and is 

 surmounted by a style with two lateral papillate lobes, with the 

 edges rolled up.' The fruit consists of a small number of many- 

 seeded berries. Two or three species" of Jle.vahhus are known, 

 natives of tropical Africa ; trees or shrubs with alternate leaves and 



^ They are especially covered with parallel 

 horizontal plaits, so that in tlie young l3uds of 

 K. senegalensis A. DC. (Uvaria monopetala 

 Rich., Gtjill. & Pere., Tent. Fl. Seneg., 8), 

 the apex of the petal comes very near the ba-se. 



^ The edge is often slightly reduplicate. 



^ There are often six ; in this case each seems 

 to be superposed to a corolla lobe. 



■» Bexthaji & Hooker state that they are 

 sometimes in one row, sometimes in two {Gen. 

 950). But we have shown {Adansonia, viii. 332) 

 that in the species that are undoubtedly of tliis 

 genus there ai'e always two vertical rows of 

 ovules placed back to back. 



* Each of these two lobes is a large triangular 

 blade with its upper edge lobed and papillate, and 

 it looks as if it had been twisted up into a cornet, 



like a sheet of paper. There is, moreover, as 

 shown in fig. 280, a terminal median lobe, 

 relatively very short and obtuse. The floral 

 receptacle is nearly plane in H. grandiflonts, 

 and depressed and surrounded by a projecting 

 ring in H. senegalensis (see Adansonia, viii, 

 329). 



6 Rich., Guill. & Peee., Tent. Fl. Sen/gamh., 

 loc. cit., t. 2. — Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxiii. 

 467, t. 49.— Walp., Eep., i. 80.— Oliv. Ft. 

 of Trop.Afr., 26. We have described {Adansonia, 

 viii. 3 18) a doubtful species of this genus. H. 

 brasiliensis A. S. H. & TUL. belongs to Trigyneia 

 (see p. 206) ; and perhaps, too, II. madagasca- 

 riensis A. DC. (Mem., 37, n. 2), should, we have 

 said, be referred to the genus Monodora {Adan- 

 sonia, viii. 301). 



