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flattened, the outer series twice as long and broad; anthers bright- 
yellow, small, nearly quadrate; style thickish, persistent, the stigma 
obscurely 3- lobed. (Vo. 1895.) 
STYRAX ovaTA (R. & P.) A. DC. Prodr. 8: 267. (oveolaria 
ovata R. & P. Syst. Veg. 100.) (Vo. 2867.) 
APOCYNACEAE 
? MaLoveTia sp. (Specimen in fruit, and without locality or 
date.) The same as Rusby 23790. 
Laubertia (?) laxiflora sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branches stender, terete; leaves opposite; petioles 4— 
5 mm. long, broad; blades 0.8-1.2 dm. ong, 3-4.5 cm. broad, 
oblong or oval to ‘slightly aed abruptly short-acuminate and 
obtuse, deep-green and shining a drying sae a ti 
underneath, the midrib channeled above, very prominent under- 
neath, the 5 or 6 pairs of very slender eT en strongly one 
connected by the tertiaries; panicle terminal, ne pears set 
few, 1-2 dm. long, sub-filiform, drooping, flexuous, very s ely 
flowered; bracts very small, ovate, thickish ; pedicels at aon 
tube 6 mm. long, cylindrical and slightly contracted upward, the 
throat ee oe within, the a broadly infundibular, 1.2 cm. 
ong, the lobes 5-6 mm. long a road, sub-rotund, entire, 3-5- 
nerved ; can inserted at the nae of the tube, lightly pilose, 
ligulate, narrowly margined above, 2 mm. long, nearly 1 mm. 
free portion of the lobes 0.5 mm. long, acute, the tips. lightly 
incurved ; aa of the nee Rae Reed thick, li sane connate 
at the base n two pairs, the fifth entirely free; ‘style thick and 
dilated Rice gradually Ronin filiform at the summit, the stigma 
1 mm. long, nearly as broad, 5-lobed, annulate; only very young 
fruit seen, the ovaries separate, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, the 
apices incurved. (Vo. 2056. 
This very interesting plant differs from the meager descriptions 
of the little known genus Lazéertza in the presence of the ligules 
of the calyx, which may very easily have been overlooked in pre- 
vious specimens. The young fruit, moreover, looks as though it 
may develop something very different from the slender follicles de- 
scribed. When better known it may be found to represent an un- 
described genus. 
