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ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Parr IV. 
By Spencer Le M. Moore, F.L.S. 
(Continued from vol. xviii. p. 8.) 
urya amplexicaulis, sp.nov. Fruticosa, glabra, caule folioso 
satis valido tereti leviter undulato-geniculato, foliis amplis brevissime 
t. Dulangau, Mindoro; John Whitehead pala Brit. Mus.). 
Ca di apicem versus par miniatus, 
rubescens deinde plus minus cinereus, "lantieellis abe emi- 
nentibus copiose instructus. Folia coriacea, plerumque 8-0-11-0 cm 
long. (necnon minoribus 2-0-8-5 cm. long. hac atque illac inter- 
calatis), juxta medium & ee em. lat., subtus pallidiora; costa 
media pag. sup. impressa, pag. inf. maxime eminens et rubescens 
et transve a agaicen: Spetial 0-2-0°4 cm. long., validi, rubes- 
centes. Fasciculi 2-8-flori. Pedunculi 0-1-0-2 cm. long., sub- 
tiliter i Stn Flores 0°6 cm. diam. Sepala rotundata, 
margine breviter membranacea, 0: a cm. long. Petala deorsum 
connata, late obovata, retusa, 0-6 cm. long. Ovarium subglobosu 
0:23 cm. long. ; styl recurvi, 0- 12 em. long. Bacca et flores 
ii. 
he affinity of this seems to be with FH. Macartneyi Cham 
from Hong Kong; but it can readily be distinguished from Al 
species of the genus by means of the amplexicaul leaves. The 
details of the floral structure—of the fomale fomert that is—are in 
close agreement with those of EH. Macartneyi, shown in Seem. 
Bot. Herald, t. 74, except that the iowa I ee bave four 
styles, whereas the ag of the other are described as being either 
three or four in number 
NipoRELLa PE Oliv. in James & Thrupp, Unknown 
Horn of Africa, 819. Professor Oliver was led to attach a query 
to the ae of this Sagres on — t of the larger and less con- 
under notice, two specimens of it, collected by Mrs. Lort oe sein 
in Somaliland, having been, a few months ago, presented to the 
British coke me Like Professor Oliver, I failed in finding a 
characters to separate it from Nidorella; the only additional 
feature notiesd by me being that the ligules of the ray-florets are 
er than usually obtains in the genus. The interesting point 
il : 
similar to the type-specimen at Kew, the second of them looks 
decidedly more like a Nidorella, inasmuch as its somewhat smaller 
heads are more congested than are those of the other. I can not, 
however, see any ground for dikngsiahing this second specimen 
even by a varietal name. 
Eee, A 
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