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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
dilatata, apice subulata; anther ce oblongse 2-lob8e, 4-loculares, 
imo bifidse, connectivo tenui, dorso in sinu affixse, lobis singu- 
latim 2-locellatis, demum septicidis, et longitudinaliter evo- 
lutim dehiscentibus. Pollen trigonum. Ovarium oblongnm, 
liberum, subgibbum, glabrum, disco parvulo stipitatum, ap- 
pendice glanduloso dentibus 2 obtusis erectis ad basin styli 
lateraliter coronatum, 1-loculare; ovula 2 juxta apicem loculi 
subcollateraliter superposita, podospermio crassiusculo sus- 
pensa. Stylus tereti-subulatus, gracilis, longitudine petalorum 
excedens, apice inflexus. Stigma obtusum, lateraliter sulcatum. 
Fructus ignotus. — Frutices Africa tropica glabri, exsiccatione 
nigrescentes •, folia alterna, elliptica, integerrima, flores parvi, 
plurimi, axillares, fasciculati, cum pedicellis brevibus articulati. 
1. Rhaphiostylis Beninensis, Planch.; Hook. Flor. Nigrit. 259. 
tab. 28. Apodytes Beninensis, Hook. fil. Icon. pi. tab. 778 ; 
— glaberrimus, foliis distichis, elongato-ellipticis, utrinque at- 
tenuatis, summo obtusiusculo vel emarginato, subtus nervis 
prominulis, margine revolutis, breviter petiolatis : floribus 
axillaribus, paucis, virente-albidis, cum pedicellis sub-brevio- 
ribus articulatis. — Cape Palmas (Vogel). — v. s. in herb. Hooker. 
The leaves here are 3| to 4 inches long, inch broad, on a 
petiole of 2 lines ; the axils are generally ^ inch apart, with about 
eight flowers in each ; the flowers in bud are 3 lines long, on a 
pedicel of 2 lines. 
2. Rhaphiostylis Heudelotii, Planch. MSS. ; — glaberrimus, foliis 
oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque acuminatis, apice repente angus- 
tatis, coriaceis, subtus pallidioribus, breviter petiolatis ; flori- 
bus axillaribus, pedicellatis, e nodo crebre bracteato 8-10-fas- 
ciculatis. — Senegambia (Heudelot, 723 ; v. s. in herb. Hook.). 
This is certainly a distinct species, the leaves being consider- . 
ably larger than the former, more attenuated in the apex, paler, 
more coriaceous, the axils more distant, and the flowers larger. 
The leaves are 5i inches long, 2 inches broad, on a petiole of 
3 lines : the axils are 1|- inch apart ; the flowers in bud measure 
4 lines in length, and 1 line in diameter, upon pedicels 2 lines 
long ; the pistil is at least a line longer than the petals ; the 
calyx is very small : the whole plant is entirely glabrous, and like 
the former blackens in drying*. 
Leretia. 
This genus, although previously known from the rough and 
veiy incorrect figure in the ‘ Flora Fluminensis,’ was first 
* This species, with an analysis of its floral structure, is represented 
m plate 6 of this work. 
