16 IV. MENISPEBMACE2E. [TiliaCOTO, 



bites and as a sudorific in constipation. Welw. Synops. p. 29. Com- 

 pare Welw. Apont. p. 554. 



3. CHONDODENDRON Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. p. 132 (1794); non 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 34. 



1. C. (?) macrophyllum Hiern, sp. n. 



An ample robust shrub, 10 to 15 ft. high, widely climbing, 

 rather rigid ; branches terete ; shoots elongated, voluble, covered 

 with a rusty velvety tomentum ; older branches glabrescent; 

 wood of the stem sometimes 2 in. in diam., very hard ; branches 

 very tenacious, and even after being dried for a long time 

 remarkably elastic. Leaves orbicular or cordiform, cuspidate, 

 broadly cordate or nearly rounded at the base, rigidly but thinly 

 coriaceous, glabrate, bright green and very glossy above, beneath 

 pale and with raised tawny-pubescent veins, ranging up to 6 by 5 

 in. ; petiole spreading, rusty-tomentose, at the apex thickened and 

 curved-reflexed, ranging up to 3 in. long. Flowers fragrant, 

 sparse, met with on stems several years old ; fruiting stems always 

 without leaves up to the height of 6 to 8 ft., where the fresh 

 ramifications begin. Male flowers clustered in short axillary 

 racemes, short, sessile, surrounded by bracts exceeding the flowers, 

 on all sides clothed with dense dark-golden hairs; outer sepals 

 15 or 18, orbicular-ovate or transversely oblong, obtuse, rather 

 rigid, all imbricated, gradually greater inwards ; the 6 taller ones, 

 enveloping the petals, greater than any of the others and nearly 

 equal among themselves, glabrous on the inner surface. Inner- 

 most sepals 3, valvate, altogether covered by the outer sepals, 

 thick, rigid, including the stamens ; petals 6, very small, shorter 

 than or scarcely as long as the filaments, obovate, opposite to the 

 filaments ; stamens 6 ; filaments erect, shorter than the anthers, 

 not cohering except the base ; anthers erect, ovate-oblong, rather 

 obtuse, introrse, longitudinally dehiscent; cells vertically adnate 

 to the thick connective ; ovary deficient, but represented by a little 

 bundle of golden-tawny rigid fragile hairs in the centre of the 

 flower. Female inflorescence lateral or axillary, g to 1 in. long; 

 carpels 12 to 18, tawny-tomentose ; fruit-carpels numerous (7), 

 tawny-tomentellous, obovoid-oblong, rather compressed laterally, 

 gibbous, | in. long, § in. broad, 5 in. thick, stipitate, 1 -celled but 

 with a partial septum from the base to near the top of the cell ; 

 stipes I to ^ in. long, tawny-tomentose. Seed solitary, elongated, 

 bent in the middle through 180° over the partial septum of the 

 fruit ; albumen 0. 



Golungo Alto. — In very dense and shady woods of Serra de Alta 

 Queta, sparingly and usually solitary ; Jan., March, and April 1856 in 

 leaf without flower or fruit, fl. June 1856, with nearly ripe fruit 

 August 1856. No. 2307. Coll. Carp. 195. 



In general appearance the specimens closely resemble Triclisia macro- 

 phylla Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 48, a plant from Fernando-Po. 



The genus of this plant is uncertain ; perhaps it is a new type. 

 Chondodendron differs by the filaments curved at the apex, and by the 



