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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flowers' each accompanied by involucel, fleshy urceolate-depressed 

 obscurely and unequally dentate, accrescent fleshy round fruit, 

 exterior glabrous or setose, interior clothed with dense plumose- 

 barbate pulvinate setae, stipitate (Madagascar). 



3. Schizolsena Dup.-Th. 3 — Flowers nearly of Sarcolana ; 

 germen, cells 3, oo-ovulate. Capsule of Sarcolcena, 3-valved. — Small 

 trees ; leaves alternate entire coriaceous ; stipules 2-nate, flowers 4 

 in involucel, pedunculate 2-nate ; bracts of involucel 2-co , at an thesis 

 small crenate, round capsules 1, 2, including, large, coriaceous 

 laciniate 5 (Madagascar*'). 



4? Rhodolsena Dup.-Th. 7 — Flowers nearly of Sarcolcena; 5, 6- 

 merous ; stamens oo, inserted in short urceolate tube ; anthers 

 versatile. Germen 3-locular; ovules in each cell few. 8 Fruit . . . ? — An 

 elegant scandent shrub ; leaves alternate rather long petiolate, 

 entire coriaceous 9 ; flowers 10 elongate pedunculate ; n 2-nate, bracts 2 

 small squamiform 12 stipitate below calyx 13 (Madagascar^). 



1 Whitish or pale yellow, sometimes pink (?). 



2 Spec. 4. Dup.-Th., loc. cit.—K. Bn. in 

 Adansonia, x. 177. 



3 Hist. Veget. Afr., 43, t. 12.— DC.,' Prodr., 

 i. 521. — Spacii, Suit, a Buff on, iv. 56. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5400.— H. Bn„ in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 263.— B. H., Gen., 195, n. 3. 



4 Ordinary, whitish or pink. 



5 Sometimes sprinkled with a yellowish re- 

 sinous dust. Outside the bracts of the involucre 

 often occur bracteoles 2-oo , 2-seriate vertical, 

 the more inferior the smaller, 2-cussate imbricate 

 (tigs. 238, 239). 



6 Spec. 3. Dup.-Th., loc. cit. 



" Hist. Veget. Afr., 47, 1. 13.— DC, Prodr., i. 



522. — Spach, Suit, a Buffov, iv. 57. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5401. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 264.— B. H., Gen., 195, n. 4.— Pandora 

 Noronh. (ex Dup.-Th.). 



8 In flowers observed 4, vertical 2-seriate. 



9 " Exstipulate," not lineate. 

 - 10 Slightly thickened at apex. 



11 Pink, " large handsome." 



12 With sepals sprinkled with a yellowish 

 resinous dust. 



' 13 " Sepala exteriora ?" (B. H.) 



14 Spec. 1. P. altivola Dup.-Th„ loc. cit., 

 "fructu ignoto quoad affinit. dub., forte Ternstroz- 

 miaceis propinquior, sed stam. urceolo recedit." 

 (B. H.) 



