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and 3-dentate, as in Odontocarya •, but its condyle is internal, 
globular, and hollow, with an external linear foramen, as in 
Tinospora. Its sepals and petals have the usual ternary disposi- 
tion, and its 6 central stamens are monadelphous for half their 
length. Some of the specimens have male flowers, the others 
are in fruit ; although the drupes are not sufficiently matured 
to distinguish the embryo, the structure of the putamen, with 
its seed, is quite evident. I have added a second species from 
western tropical Africa. 
Chasmantheba, Hochs. — Char, reform. Flores dioici. Masc. 
Sepala 6, alternatim 2-serialia, 3 exteriora linearia, acuminata, 
extus hirsuta, setis longis ciliata, 3 interiora rotundato-ob- 
longa, margine eroso-denticulata, basi cuneata, concava, te- 
nuiter membranacea, 3-nervia, dorso hirsutiuscula. Petala 
6, biserialia, sepalis paulo breviora, carnosa, oblonga, obtusa, 
imo breviter unguiculata, marginibus vix inflexis, intus linea 
loriformi prominente signata. Stamina 6, petalis opposita, 
erecta, connata ; filamenta petalis sequilonga, e basi ultra me- 
dium in cylindrum crassum monodelphum coalita, superne 
libera; antherce basifixse, subcordatse, S-lobae, lobis oblongis, 
collateralibus, connective angusto adnatis, rima marginali 
dehiscentibus. Ovaria rudimentaria vel nulla. — Foem. ignoti. 
Drupce 3, ovatse, carnosse, erectse, sessiles, apice stylo subex- 
centrico apiculatse : putamen ovatum, compressum, osseum, 
extus convexum, carina dorsali in apiculum terminata, ventre 
planum ; condylus hinc internus, ovato-globosus, cavus, meatu 
externo longitudinali perforatus : csetera ignota. 
Frutices Africani scandentes, ramulis longissimis, dependentibus •, 
folia majuscula, late orbiculata, reniformi-cordata, subsinuato- 
lobata, 7-^-nervia, tenuia, reticulata, utrinque pubescentia. Ion- 
gissime petiolata : racemi axillares, simplices, petiolo longiores ; 
flores breviter pedicellati, bracteati. 
1. Chasmanthera dependens, Hochst. FI. Zeit. 27. i. 21; — ramis 
striatis, cortice nitido, membranaceo, verrucoso-tuberculato, 
rimoso ; folds amplis, suborbicularibus, imo reniformi-cor- 
datis, et hinc sinu in petiolum breviter retractis, apice aut 
subacutis, vel emarginatis et mucronatis, ad margines ciliatos 
sinuato-sublobatis, submembranaceis, pallidis, 7-nerviis, valde 
reticulatis, utrinque flavido-pubescentibus ; petiolo folio sequi- 
longo, debili, imo tortuoso, vix. incrassato, cum cupula no- 
dosa articulate; raceme simplici, graciliter pendente, axil- 
lari, pubescente, folio longiore, pedicellis brevibus, approxi- 
matis, imo bracteatis; floribus viridescentibus, membrana- 
ceis ; fructibus rubris. — In Africa tropica, v. s. in herb, meo et 
