W. H. Harvey on two New Species of Rhizantheae. S87 



keel, more than half as long (generally f rds) as the anterior, 

 dark purplish-red at the apex, pale below ; the anterior red 

 with yellow margins. Perianth, segments united at base into 

 a cup, the anterior nearly as long as the posterior, Umb lanceo- 

 late obtuse, somewhat concave, dark brown-red ; claws yel- 

 low, flat or slightly channeled. Filaments subulate, robust ; 

 anthers distinct ; pollen cubical, with fluted angles. 



Females: Anterior bractea as in the male; lateral (in 

 anthesis) rather longer than it, boat-shaped, acute, with a 

 sharp ciliate keel, distinct; m fruit very much enlarged, and 

 much longer than the anterior, yellow with red tips. Limb 

 of the perianth subglobose or ellipsoidal, obtusely trifid or tri- 

 crenate, red. Style much exserted, fiUform. Ovary oval-ob- 

 long, seated in a white, fleshy, cup-like torus, to whose centre 

 it is attached by the attenuated base, dark red, minutely hispi- 

 dulous, containing a fleshy mass, in the centre of which is a 

 white body, of whose nature I cannot satisfy myself. In some 

 ovaries it is very obscure. Ripe fruit deciduous, with the 

 torus (which surrounds its base very much like the arillus of 

 a seed) resembling the ovary, and but little enlarged, dark 

 vinous red, slightly fleshy, with a thin but hard crustaceous 

 endocarp. Contents, myriads of minute, white, cellular bodies, 

 into which the fleshy mass of the ovary is dissolved. 



M. Thomii. A. flowering plant. B. plant in fruit, nat. size. 

 Fig. 1. female flower (anthesis); 1*. ditto, in fruit; 2. ditto, back 

 view; 3. ditto, with the bracteae removed; 4. female perianth, which 

 varies in form ; 5. male bracteae; 6. ditto, separated; 7. ditto, back 

 view; 8. male flower; 9. male perianth; 10. ditto, dissected. 



2. Mystropetalon Polemanni, Harv. MS. Anterior bractea spathu- 

 late, with a narrow claw; limbs of the segments of the male pe- 

 rianth elliptical, very concave; female perianth tubular, trifid (PI. 

 XX.). 



Hab. At Hoouw Hoch Pass, Mrs. Denys, who communicated the 

 only specimen yet seen to Mr. Polemann, from whom I received it. 



M. Polemanni, fig. 1. female flower (anthesis), front view; 2. ditto, 

 back view; 3. ditto, the anterior bractea removed, and the lateral 

 pulled open; 4. 5. diff"erent views of the perianth; 6. base of the 

 ovary, showing its insertion into the torus ? 7. ovary and torus } cut 

 through ; 8. front view of the male bracteae ; 9. back view of ditto ; 



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