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ferent, the flowers being larger, and the ciliated bracts at the base 
of the branchlets far more conspicuous. The leaves are smaller 
and broader in proportion, their total letigth, including the basal 
lobes, beg 72 inches, while their breadth is 9} inches, the 
central lobe from the insertion of the petiole measuring 6 inches, 
the lateral lobes 54 inches, the lower lobes 5 inches, the basal 
portions of which are wide apart, and extend 12 inch below the 
line of insertion of the petiole; the petiole measures 52 inches, 
and is 1 line diam. The male raceme is 18 inches long, its 
rachis being sparsely pilose with spreading glandular reddish 
hairs ; its branehlets are divaricated, filiform, flexuose, glabrous, 
1; mch long, and 7-8-flowered; the flowers are sessile, gla- 
brous, and 3 lines diam. when expanded. 
3. Jateorhiza strigosa, nob., Hook. Fl. Nig. 212, pl. 18;—Coe- 
culus macranthus, Hook. fil. in Hook. Icon. pl. 759 ;—foliis 
rotundatis, sinuato-3-lobatis, basi profunde inciso-cordatis ; 
lobis acute 3-angularibus, mucronatis, lateralibus imo in 
auriculas basales profundas rotundatis, marginibus parallelis 
fere approximatis, submembranaceis, reticulatis, supra nitidis, 
subtus pallidioribus, 7-nerviis, nervis utrinque setoso-strigosis, 
setis adpressis rigidis rufulis longiusculis, margine dense 
setoso-ciliatis ; petiolo striato, auriculis 2-plo longiore, arcte 
setoso-strigoso ; racemo axillari; floribus ceruleo coloratis 
(Smith), lutescenti-albis (Vogel).—In Africa, ora occidentali, 
v. s. nm herb. Mus. Brit., Congo et ins. Fernando Po (Exped. 
Tuckey) ; an herb. Hook. 3 et 2, Clarence Cove, Fernando 
Po (Vogel). 
This is a very distinct species. The leaves, including the 
basal lobes, are 9 inches long, 9 inches broad; from the apex 
to the insertion of the petiole is 71 inches; the lateral lobes, 
with a broad intervening sinus or undulation, are 6 inches long; 
the depth of the basal lobes is therefore 21 inches; the petiole 
is 54 inches long. The raceme is 5 inches long, its branchlets 
2-8 lines in length; its flowers are much smaller than those of 
the preceding species, and about the size of those of the first- 
mentioned typical plant, scarcely exceeding 2 lines diam. when 
expanded. The above dimensions are from the specimen in the 
British Museum: in those of Vogel’s Collection the leaves are 
only 3-4-4 inches long, 46 inches broad, on a petiole 6-8 inches 
long; the racemes are only 2—4 inches long. 
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