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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
concavis, carnosis, extus adpresse velutinis, sestivatione val- 
vatis, demum reflexis ; petalis nullis ; staminibus 6, sequali- 
bus, subbiseriatis, quorum 3 interdum deficientia, androecio 
longe piloso insitis, erectis, filamentis sepalis fere sequilongis, 
teretibus, glabris, sursum sensira crassioribus, bine extus 
gibbosis, counectivo in apiculum breve obtusum inflexum 
excurrente. — In Africa sequinoctiali : v. s. in herb. Hook. 
Fernando Po (Mann, 197). 
This is said to be a climbing plant, with stems and branches 
30 feet long, growing to the height of 10 feet above the ground. 
The axils are 2-4 inches apart ; the leaves are 8-12| inches long 
(including the basal sinus inch deep), 5-7^ inches broad, 
on a petiole 1 ^-2 inches long. The fasciculated panicles are 
about 1 inch long, each on a peduncle 6 lines long, having 
alternate branchlets 3 lines long, bracteolated at base, and 
bearing alternate pedicels 2 lines long, each with a minute bract 
at base ; each flower has two bracts ^ line long, three outer 
sepals 4 line, three intermediate sepals | line, three inner ones 
2 lines long ; the stamens are seated upon a short glabrous 
cylindrical receptacle crowned with many long hairs, the fila- 
ments swelling in the middle, being incurved, the excurrent 
connectives connivent towards the centre. 
2. Triclisia patens, Oliv. MS.; — ramis teretibus, vix sulcatis, 
lenticellatis, glabris ; ramulis teretibus, striolatis, flavescenti- 
tomentellis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, imo rotundiusculis et circa 
petiolum subito constrictis, apice repente et breviter attenuatis, 
acumine acuto, 3-nerviis vel 5pli-nerviis, nervis extus ramosis 
et cum alteris pinnatis utrinque 3 arcuatim nexis, supra ni- 
tidis, valde reticulatis, glabris, subtus paulo pallidioribus et ad 
nervos venasque obsolete puberulis, caeteroquin glabris ; pe- 
tiolo tenui, limbo dimidio breviore, tereti, subtenui, stricto, 
striolato, fulvo-tomentello ; paniculis ^ plurimis in axillis 
nodosis annotinis fasciculatis, fulvido-puberulis, petiolo di- 
midio vel 3-plo brevioribus, a basi ramosis, ramis alternis, 
iterum raniulosis; floribus crebriter corymbosis; sepalis 12, 
exterioribus gradatim minoribus et bracteiformibus, pilis 
.ongis extus sericeis, carnosis, 3 interioribus multo majori- 
bus, oblongis, imo longe cuneatis, concavis, aestivatione 
valvatis, demum reflexis ; petalis 3, minimis, spathulato- 
liiiearibus, apice truncatis, carnosulis, staminibus affixis ; 
staminibus 3, longitudine sepalorum, suberectis, filamentis 
imo tenuibus, apice incrassatis et paulo iuflexis, connective in 
apiculum longum obtusulum excurrente, cum petalis fasciculo- 
que pilorum summo androecii brevis glabri insitis. — In Africa 
lequinoctiali : v. s. in herb. Hook. (J , Bagroo River (Maun, 797). 
