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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
sublongiore ; rachi dense pubescente, bracteata ; bracteis vix 
imbricatis, reniformi-orbiculatis, petiolulatis, aristato-mucro- 
natis, membranaceis, subglabris^ margine longe piloso-ciliatis; 
ramis cum bracteis enatis binis, iis paulo longioribus, corym- 
bosis; floribus pro genere majusculis ; pedicellis imo bracteo- 
latis ; sepalis spathulato-oblongis, apice subacutis, marginibus 
crenulatis, extus molliter pilosis; petalo turbinato-campanu- 
lato, extus piloso, margine crenulato, subtetralobo ; anthera 
tetraloba, inclusa : racemo $ e ramo novello axillari, folio lon- 
giore, imo foliolis paucis et tot quot ramulis donato ; ramulis 
imbricatim bracteatis; bracteis subreniformibus, cordatis, 
apice profunde emarginatis et aristato-mucronatis, brevissime 
petiolulatis, membranaceis, reticulatis, subglabris, marginibus 
longe ciliatis ; floribus 5, pedicellatis, in axillis fasciculatis, 
tomentoso-pilosis. — In Africa sequinoctiali : v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit. , Cape Coast (Brass) ; in kb. Lindl. $ (P. de Beauvois); 
in herb. Hook. ? , Niger (Baxter, 3345), Lagos(Baxter, 20156); 
Fernando Po (Mann, 180). 
Palisot de Beauvois did not live to complete his ‘ Flora Owa- 
riensis,’ or this species would have been described and figured in 
that work ; De Candolle, however, gave a short and incomplete 
account of the typical specimen in DelesserPs herbarium, evi- 
dently the female plant only, though no mention is made of this, 
— a supposition confirmed by the existence of a duplicate $ spe- 
cimen in Dr. Lindley’s herbarium : the plant above enumerated 
from Cape Coast is, without doubt, the ^ of the same. The spe- 
cies is easily recognized by its nearly 3-lobed orbicular leaves, 
each lobe being marked by an excurrent aristiform point, which 
is sometimes broken off ; the inflorescence in both sexes also 
offers peculiar characters. The leaves in the ^ plant are 2^ inches 
111 diameter, on a petiole 1-lj inch long, inserted 5 lines within 
the margin of the shallow marginal sinus ; those in the $ plant, 
though of similar form, are larger, and upon longer petioles; 
they are 2J-3f inches long, 3-4 inches broad, on a petiole 
14-2| inches long, inserted 5-8 lines within the margin of the 
sinus. The ^ racemiform spike may be compared to a young 
floriferous branch with dwarfed leaves; it is 1^-3 inches long, 
its membranaceous bracts being closely approximated, subsessile, 
more or less cordate at base, deeply emarginated and with an aris- 
tate point in the apex, and 2-3 lines in diameter ; the panicles in 
the axils of each of these bracts are 3-5 lines long, corymbose, 
subpilose, with very slender peduncles and pedicels, the latter 
being 1 line long, and the very acutely oval bracteoles f line 
long; the sepals are line long, lanceolate, with crenulated 
margins, and externally pilose; the petal is 1 line long. The 
? raceme is 3-4 inches long, and emits two or three alternate 
