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aliorum ; Abyssinia ad fluv. Tacaze (Schimper, cj n, 654, 
5 n. 1666) ; fluv. Quorra d (Baxter, 1731, 2 Baxter, 1728). 
This is described as a twining shrub, growing in shady woods, 
having long, slender, pendent branches, with a peeling, smooth, 
and tuberculated bark. I cannot perceive any specific difference 
in the plants from the two distant localities. The leaves of 
Schimper’s d specimens, on young branches, are about 2i inches 
in diameter, and from the point of their origin the male racemes 
spring; the older leaves, as in Baxter’s d specimens, are much 
larger, more acute, sinuously 5-lobed, 5| inches long from the 
basal sinus to the apex, or 6f inches from the bottom of the basal 
lobes, and 6j inches broad, on a petiole 2| inches long. In 
Schimpei’’s $ plant the leaves are 4| inches from the petiole to 
the apex, and are 6 inches long including the basal lobes, between 
which they are 2-sinuate ; their breadth at the greatest diameter 
is 7 inches ; they are of thin texture, very pale, and pubescent ; 
the petiole is 4i inches long, and pubescent. The male raceme 
is slender, pendent, pubescent, 5-6 inches long, the pedicels 
1 line long, each having a linear hairy bract of equal length, 
and bearing a single flower, the parts of which are membrana- 
ceous; the fructiferous raceme is 10 inches long; the pedicels 
are nearly i an inch long, supporting a drupe of about the same 
length, and § inch diametei’. 
2. Chasmanthera nervosa, nob.; — glaberrima, ramulis tenuiter 
teretibus, striatis, nigris, nitentibus; foliis rotundato-ovatis, 
imo profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, e medio 
seusim angustioribus, apice acuminatis, 5-nerviis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, supra viridibus, nitidis, nervis prominulis, subtus 
pallide glaucis, nervis tenuibus prominentibus nigris, hinc 
circa petiolum macula rotundata nigi’o signatis, petiolo elon- 
gate, tenui, nigro, striatulo; racemis d supra-axillaribus, 
solitariis, simplicibus, vel geminis et insequalibus, majore 
petiolo subbreviore. — In Africa tropica occidental^ v. s. in 
herb. Hook.] d Bagroo River (Mann, 888). 
This species has much the appearance of a Tinospora : its 
branchlets are f line diam., with internodes of 4| inches; 
leaves 4 inches long from the apex to the basal lobes, or 3 J inches 
long to the basal sinus, and 3^ inches broad; the raceme is 
2^ inches long. The floral structure corresponds with that of 
the preceding species. 
6. Fibraurea. 
This genus, proposed by Loureiro in 1793, was not acknow’- 
ledged by botanists till I pointed out its validity in 1851 : the 
authors of the ‘ Flora Indica ’ have recognized the justice of this 
