359. 
a new species, the following description of this palm lias been 
prepared from such material as is now available. No flowers have yet 
ed. 
been receive 
Dictyosperma fibrosum, C. A. Wright ; $ arbor, caule erecto fibris ex 
petiolis obsoletis vestito, foliis pinnatis, 
petiolis na supra leviter: concavis subtus convexis (i.e., sectione 
transver. unata) leviter furfuraceis, foliolis lanceolatis acutis ees 
contractis € c ris, nerviis centralibus prominentibus lateralibus 3-4 min 
conspicuis transversalibus paucis conjunctis, floribus ignotis, fructu sie 
globoso periearpio fibroso stigmate terminali, semine embryone sub- 
basilari, albumine ruminato. 
Folia 5 ped. longa ; pues 2 ped. longus; foliola 13 ped. longa, 
1 poll. lata, Fructus 8 lin. dia 
Habitat : Madagascar. Nadi. vulg. : Vonitra. : 
This species differs from D. album, H. Wendl., in having the trunk 
covered witha dense mass of brow wnish fibres, about 18 inches ong, 
which furnish the * Madagascar Piassava ” of commerce. pecimen 
of this from Messrs. Proctor ae es are deposited in the Museum of 
the Royal Gardens, Kew. e lateral nerves of the leaflets are also 
more conspicuous than i in D. tion and the fruit is subglobose. 
CCCCXIV.—THREE NEW SPECIES OF TRECULIA. 
Under the name of Affon-tree some leafy branches and a large ripe 
fruit of a species of Treculia (Artocarpex) have recently been E to 
Be from Yoruba by Mr. A. Millson. The fruit is FOKOSPTEEA ike 
of T. africana, but the leaves EN is a pci in and texture 
tat although flowering conceptacles ot present on M specimens, 
there can be no doubt that it is distinct from that species. It h 
therefore been described together with two other new species contained in 
the Kew Herbarium. It does not appear to have been clearly pointed 
out in the genero deseriptions that the flowering bracts are truly con- 
fluent for a greater or lesser part of their cud. "e tips or only the 
potee, nea which a minate them being free. The original vata = 
nown :— 
Flowering tcl terminated by a circular peltate scale. 
Leaves coriaceous 
Leaves 3-15 in. long, suec Mies She a - 
half their m africana. 
Leaves 2 B ^Mig flowerihgibraets con- 
fluent to the "ae under the peltate scale - madagascarica. 
Leaves rather thin, parchment-like in texture | affona. 
