ON THE GENUS ANDROCYMBIUM. 243 
the species included in both Chlamydobalanus and Castanopsis free 
acorns; in the present tree they require some force to detach them 
from the involucre 
Pollicaribus basi hilo carpico ruguloso no atis, foliorum dentibus 
eallosis spinulosis. In C. tribuloides, A.DC., which is unquestionably 
the nearest ally of this speciés—not C€. echidnocarpa, as I had 
my sal—the involucre usually contain two n sc 
rufous down, the spines are shorter and less closely set, the petioles 
half as long, the leaf-serratures are not spin * 
such as can fairly be considered of generic value, and am till of — 
pinion that it would be preferable to reduce both Castanopsis and 
Castanea to Quercus. 
°N THE GENUS ANDROCYMBIUM, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 
OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES. | 
By J. G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
Tar genus Androcymbium represents at the Cape, with a single 
Uut-wan, : g rary ae 
| se 
: the Which is usually sessile and forms a tuft like a large button on 
Surface of the soil, surrounded on all sides by a rosette of tapering 
+ Rech, * Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot., x., 201. ae 
on sur la classific, des Chénes (Copenhag., 1867.), pp. 3 sqq-; 
Perga sur la classific. des Chénes (Leipz., 1869), pp. 13-14. 
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