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filamenta libera, brevia, apice in connectivum magnum late 
orbiculatum galeato-concavum submembranaceum guttatim 
pictum desinentia; anthera 2-lob8e, lobis remote sejunctis, 
oblongis, subdivergentibus, submembranaceis, latere utroque 
connectivo semiimmersis et rima obliqua introrsum dehiscen- 
tibus. Ovaria sterilia 3, minima, subulata, lilamento sequi- 
longa, centralia. — Foem. Sepala et petala ignota. Ovaria, e 
cicatricibus in toro notatis, 4-6. Drupce totidem vel abortu so- 
litarise, ovali-oblongae, maximse, carnosse, singulatim carpopodiu 
longiusculo et crasso stipitatse, styli vestigio baud procul hoc 
notatse ; putamen subparallele oblongum, paululo compressum, 
imo aliquantulo angustius, tenuiter coriaceum, a basi longe 
ultra medium utraque facie sulcatum, extus fibrillis seu pilis 
tenuiter membranaceis anguste loriformibus erectis in pulpam 
carnosam immersis dense vestitum ; condylus internus, 
septiformis, sulcos externos adversus, ultra medium loculi 
protensus; loculus bine profunde bimarsupiatus. Semen lo- 
culo conforme ; inteyumentum membranaceum, latere interiore 
chalaza notatum et ad condylum aflSxum : embryo exalbumi- 
nosus, parallelim et adpresse plicatus, bine longe bicruris; 
cotyledones magnte, crassissimse, longissimse, semiteretes, ac- 
cumbentes, radicula brevi conica ad stylum spectante 16-plo 
longiores. 
Frutices Himalayenses, scandentes ; folia petiolata, oblonga, e basi 
Z-nervia, crasso-coriacea, glaberrima : paniculse ^ racemosce, 
supra-axillares, 2-3, fasciculate, rachi tenui, folio longiore, 
ramis brevibus, paucifloris : racemus ? axillaris, paucijlorus, 
fructifer petiolo paulo longior ; pedunculus a-assus, lignosus, 
toro subgloboso terminatus; drupse 3-6, horizontaliter radiantes, 
toro affixe. 
1. Hematocarpus Thomsoni, nob.; — Fibraurea bsematocarpa. 
Hook. ^ Th. FI. lad. i. p. 204; — ramulis flexuosis, validis, 
teretibus, obsolete striatis, glabris; folds oblongis, imo ro- 
tundatis vel obtusis, summum versus constrictis, in acumine 
longiusculo obtusulo vel acuto canaliculatim recurvo cal- 
loso-mucronatis, imo 3-nerviis, nervis divaricatis, cum aliis 
pinnatim alternis utrinque 4 intra marginem arcuatim nexis, 
vix prominulis, crasso-coi’iaceis, undulatis, utrinque glabris, 
supra pallide viridibus, nitentibus, marginibus cartilagineis 
et revolutis, subtus pallide vel albide glaucis, nervis rubi- 
cundis venisque reticulatis paulo prominentibus ; petiolo 
tenui, tereti, striato, glabro, limbo 4-plo breviore : racemo 
fructifero snpra-axillari, petiolo paululo longiore ; rachi 
crassa, patente, apice pedicellos 3 breves gerente; pedicellis 
drupis 3 majusculis oblongis longe stipitatis radiantibus 
