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hiscing by a single terminal pore ; pistils solitary, 5-carpellate, crassate, the 

 ovaries oblong, constricted above into a very short style, the stigmas 5, 

 terminal, radial, and sessile, the ovules imbricate in several rows on 5 intrusive 

 T-shaped parietal placentae; fruit (apparently) capsular, fusiform-falcate, the 

 seeds short-winged. 



Type Species : Planchonella disticha van Tieghem. 



Krukoviella disticha (van Tieghem) Dwyer, comb. nov. 

 Planchonella disticha van Tieghem, Ann. Sci. Nat. VIII. 9: 39. 1904. 



Not Planchonella of Pierre Not. Bot. Paris p. 34. 1890. 

 Godoya disticha (van Tieghem) Ule, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 6: 340. 1915. 

 Krukoviella scandens A. C. Smith, Jour. Arnold Arb. 20: 296. 1939. 



Shrubs (or vines?); stipule scars distinctly transverse, about 2-10 mm. 

 apart ; stipules appressed or contorted, thin-coriaceous, minutely glandular- 

 strigose, rectangular, about 8 mm. long, about 4 mm. wide, distinctly rotund at 

 apex, the margin entire, the corpus bearing small glandular appendages on 

 inner proximal margin ; petioles of leaves glabrous, 4-6 mm. long; leaf-blades 

 subascending, glabrous, lustrous, thin-coriaceous, obovate or oblong, 4-16 cm. 

 long, 2-8 cm. wide, obtuse at apex, cuneate or tapering obtusely at base, the 

 costa prominent above, strongly prominent beneath, 0.15-0.2 cm. wide at base, 

 tapering toward apex of blade, the secondary veins 9-18, conspicuous, sub- 

 plane, 0.4-1.2 cm. apart in middle of lamina, spreading from costa at about a 

 70° -75° angle, the tertiary veins conspicuous and forming a conspicuous 

 reticulum, the margins often strongly revolute, the teeth appressed, lanceolate, 

 0.25-0.5 mm. long, 1-6 mm. apart; inflorescence a dense terminal panicle, the 

 flowers in bostryces, usually 3 per bostryx, the rachis 6-17 cm. long, exceeding 

 uppermost leaves, the basal branches 6-12 cm. long, 1.8-3.5 cm. apart, becom- 

 ing shorter and more dense at apex, the smaller branches compressed-panic- 

 ulate, the articulation stalks 0.1-0.3 cm. long, the pedicels slender, 0.7-1 cm. 

 long at anthesis ; sepals subequal, coriaceous, glabrous, concave, ovate, ovate- 

 rotund or ovate-oblong, less than half the length of petals, the outer 3-4 mm. 

 long, 2.3-3 mm. wide, the inner 3.4-5.3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, 'rotund at 

 apex, obtuse or vaguely auriculate at base, the margin entire, without glandular 

 appendages on inner proximal margin ; petals yellow, carnose, obovate or 

 obdeltoid, 9-13 mm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, obtuse at apex, frequently bilobed, 

 the sinus up to 5 mm. deep, or erose-marginate or entire at apex, distinctly 

 obtuse or tapering narrowly (often 1 mm. wide) at base; filaments of stamens 

 slender, about l /$ length of anthers, the anthers stout, lustrous, smooth, linear- 

 oblong, 4-5.5 mm. long, dehiscing by a solitary terminal pore, obtuse-cuspidate 

 at apex, vaguely auriculate at base ; ovaries crassate, verrucose or thickly 

 striate, narrow-oblong, 7.5-9 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, constricted above into 



