234 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 sete, stipitate (Madagascar). 
3. Schizolæna Dur-Tn—Flowers nearly of Sarcolena ; 
germen, cells 3, œ-ovulate. Capsule of Sarcolena, 3-valved.—Small 
trees; leaves alternate entire coriaceous ; stipules 2-nate, flowers* 
in involucel, pedunculate 2-nate ; bracts of involucel 2-w , at anthesis 
small crenate, round capsules 1, 
laciniate’ (Madagascar). 
2, including, large, coriaceous 
4? Rhodolena Dor.-Tn.’—Flowers nearly of Sarcolena; 5, 6- 
merous ; 
stamens o, inserted in short urceolate tube ; 
anthers 
versatile. Germen 3-locular; ovules in each cell few. Fruit. . .?—An 
elegant scandent shrub; leaves alternate rather long petiolate, 
entire coriaceous’; flowers’? 
elongate pedunculate ;'' 2-nate, bracts 2 
small squamiform” stipitate below calyx (Madagascar"). 

1 Whitish or pale yellow, sometimes pink (?). 
2 Spee. 4. Duv.-Tu., loc. cif,—H. By. in 
Adansonia, x. 177. 
3 Hist. Végét. Afr., 43, t. 12.—DC., Prodr., 
i, 521.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, 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 oceur bracteoles 2-0, 2-seriate vertical, 
the more inferior the smaller, 2-cussate imbricate 
(figs. 238, 239). 
6 Spec. 3. Dup.-TH., loc. cit. 
7 Hist, Végét. Afr, 47,t. 13.—DC., Prodr., i. 
522.—Spacn, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 57—Enpt., 
Gen., n. 5401.—H, BN., in Payer Fam. Nat., 
264.—B. H., Gen. 195, n. 4.— Pandora 
Noronu, (ex Dur.-Tu.). 
$ In flowers observed 4, vertical 2-seriate. 
* « Exstipulate,” not lineate. 
10 Slightly thickened at apex. 
U Pink, “large handsome.” 
1 With sepals sprinkled with a yellowish 
resinous dust. 
13 « Sepala exteriora?” (B. H.) 
M4 Spec. 1. LR. altivola Duv.-Tu., loc. cit., 
“fructu ignoto quoad affinit, dub., forte Ternstræ- 
miaceis propinquior, sed stam. urceolo recedit.” 
(B. H.) 
