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cula, apice emarginata, lateribus introflexis stamina volventia. 

 Stamina 6, sterilia^ petalis dimidio breviora ; filamenta te- 

 nuiora, apice snbclavata, glandulis 2 effoetis signata. Ovaria 

 3^ libera, erecta, oblonga, gibba, extus dense glanduloso- 

 pilosa, gynsecio sub-3-gono imposita, 1-locularia; ovulo unico 

 funiculo brevi ex angulo interne supra medium appenso. 

 Stylus brevis, crassus, subexcentricus. Stigma 3-partitum. 

 laciniis 2-3-fidis, refiexis. Dnipa 3, abortu pauciores, ovatse, 

 carnosse, 1-spevmse ; put amen ovatum, dorso convexum, tuber- 

 culatum, pilis fibrillosis creberrime indutum, ventre Iseve; 

 condylus ventralis, scutelliformis, ovalis, extus concavus, intus 

 convexus et paulo intrusus ; semen loculo conforme, menis- 

 coideum ; embryo intra albumen carnosum quasi 2-laminare 

 fere rectus, lamella exteriore simplici tenui, interiore crassiore 

 in fissuras plurimas transversales profunde ruminata ; integu- 

 menta tenuia, intra plicas albuminis insinuata; cotyledones 

 membranaceo-foliacese, spathulato-oblongse, lateraliter divari- 

 catse, et in locellis distinctis albuminis sepultse, radicula su- 

 pera brevi tereti ad summum spectante 10-plo longiores. 

 SufFrutices Africa tropica, alte scandentes, setis rigidis vel pilis 

 setosis vestiti; folia alterna, magna, longe petiolata, cordata^ 

 rotundata, palmatim 3-5-7-loba; racemi axillai'es, elongati, 

 ramis laxis 3-7-floris ; flores vagi, pro ordine majusculi, 

 bracteati, subsessiles, bracteis longissime setoso-ciliatis donati. 



1. Jateorhiza palmata, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 38; — 

 Cocculus palmatus, DC. Syst. i. 522 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. tab. 

 2970, 2971; — Meuispermum palmatum. Lam. Diet. iv. 99; 

 Calumba, Comm.\ — ramis striatis ; foliis palmatim 5-7- lobatis, 

 mucronato-apiculatis, sinibus acutis ; lobis acuminatis, inte- 

 gris, basalibus profunde auriculatis et approximatis, supra 

 laevigatis, nitidis, subtus pailidioribus, utrinque nervis venis- 

 quc setis apice glandulosis sparsim hispidis, margine setoso- 

 ciliatis; petiolo crasso, elongato, striato, basi incrassato, fere 

 glabro ; raccmo S axillari, gracili, petiolo fere 2-plo longiore, 

 setis paucis retrorsis hispidulo, ramis laxis plurifloris; ra- 

 cemo 2 petiolo dimidio breviore, floribus dcnsioribus, pedicel- 

 lis 1-floris. — Mozambique (lat. 16° aust.), v. s. 6 et ^ in hei-b. 

 Hook. (Bojer, a Telfairio in insul. Mauritian, cult.). Specim. 

 mag.juv. in herb. Soc. Linn., Wall. Cat. 4953 c; Mauritius 

 (Telfair). 



This species is very distinct from that cultivated in the Cal- 

 cutta Botanic Garden, the two having been confounded together. 

 The leaves arc orbicular, 14 inches diam.; the central lobe from 

 the insertion of the petiole is 10 inches long, the lateral lobes 



