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sime campanulatus vel subrotatus, 4-5 mill. latus, segmentis 4 cent. 
longis, 3 cent. latis. Petala obovata, apice rotundata, puberula, flava, 
l'/ cent. longa, 1 cent. lata. Antheræ subsessiles, 3 mill. longæ, 
loculis longitudinaliter triplicatis. Pedunculus femineus 3-4 cent. lon- 
gus, ad medium bracteatus ; bractea obovata, 1-3 mill. longa. Calycis 
segmenta ovato-oblonga, acuta. Ovarium anguste oblongum, subgla- 
brum, leviter verruculosum ; stylus gracilis, 3-4 mill. longus, stigma- 
tibus 3, bilobatis. 
In Mozambique ad Zungomero, lat. 7°27 S. (Grant in herb. Kew.); 
in Zanzibar loco haud indicato (Duparquet in herb. Mus. Par. ; Ja- 
blonski in herb. Mus. Par.; Boivin in herb. Mus. Par.; Kirk in 
herb. Kew.); ad Mombassa (Hildebrandt n. 974 b, in herb. Vin- 
dob. et Kew.); in insul. Zanzibar (Hildebrandt n. 974 in herb. 
Vindob.). 
4. M. anigosantha (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr., 2, p. 536); 
dioica ; foliis pedato-5-foliolatis; foliolis membranaceis, longule 
petiolulatis, ovato-oblongis, apice acutis, basi obtuse truncatis vel 
subcordatis, tenuiter papillosis; floribus masculis numerosis, race- 
mosis vel subpaniculatis; peduneulo communi ebracteato; calyce 
obliquo, deflexo, basi gibboso; floribus femineis minute bracteatis ; 
fructu ovoideo, rostrato, tuberculis magnis triangularibus compressis 
armato. ! 
Caulis gracillimus, suleatus, subglaber. Petiolus gracilis, subglaber, 
1-2 cent. longus; petioluli divergentes, 1*/, cent. longi. Foliola supra 
intense viridia, subtus paulo pallidiora, utrinque sublevia, margine 
subintegerrima vel obscure sinuato-d ta, i ium 8-9 cent. 
longum, 4-4 1/, cent. latum, lateralia minora, exteriora multo bre- 
viora, Cirrhi gracillimi, bifidi. Pedunculus communis masculus subfi- 
liformis, 8-10 cent. longus; pedicelli erecto - patuli, filiformes, 
l */,-2 1/, cent. longi, ad basim rarius minute bracteolati. Calycis 
tubus campanulatus, 8 mill. longus, 7 mill. latus, segmentis ovato- 
subulatis, apice filiformibus, patulis, 5-6 mill. longis, inferiore latiore. 
Corolla oblique rotata, flava, 4 cent. lata, segmentis acuminatis. 
minum filamenta brevissima, basi dilatata; antheræ oblongæ, 
loculis Subrectis, connectivo angusto. Pedunculus femineus filiformis, 
brevis, fere ad basim bracteatis, Ovarium fusiforme, muricatum, gla- 
rum, rostratum; stylus filiformis, 3 mill. longus, stigmatibus 2 (an 
""IDer?), bifidis; segmentis divaricatis. Fructus glauco-viridis, 
26 cent. longus, 3 '/,-4 cent. crassus. Semina sordide fusca, ovato- 
Surres ay Prodromus 111. 28 
