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The branches are straighter and more slender than in the 
preceding species, with axils f-l-| inch apart; the leaves are 
4|-5i inches long, 2f-3^ inches broad, on a slender petiole 
2-3 inches long; the panicles are inch long, with spread- 
ing branches again subdivided ; the flower expanded is 3 lines 
broad ; the nine outer sepals, in three series, are somewhat tri- 
angular, from j to f line long ; the three inner sepals, broadly 
unguiculate at base, are 1^ line long ; the three petals, ^ line long, 
are seated opposite to and outside the three stamens, together 
with a tuft of erect hairs, upon the summit of a short, glabrous, 
cylindrical receptacle; the filaments, 11 line long, much thick- 
ened and incurved above, terminate in a terete obtuse excurrent 
point ; the anther-cells, oblong, divergent at base, are introrse 
and somewhat imbedded in the fleshy filament. 
3. Triclisia conace«, Oliv. MS. ; — ramulis teretibus, substrio- 
latis, adpresse ferrugineo-puberulis ; folds late ovatis, imo vix 
truncatulis, apice rotundatis et breviter canaliculato-plicatis, 
e basi 5-nerviis, nervis extus raraosis et cum alteris pinnatis 
utrinque 2 marginem versus anastomosantibus, coriaceis, 
supra nitidulis, valde reticulatis, glabris, ad nervos subsul- 
catis, marginibus incrassatis et revolutis, subtus concolori- 
bus, in nervis venisque valde prominentibus rubro-pilosis ; 
petiolo tereti, flexuoso, piloso, supra sulcato, limbo 3-plo 
breviore ; floribus perplurimis, fasciculatis, brevissime petio- 
latis, hinc in capitulum sessile axillare aggregatis; sepalis 
15-18, suborbicularibus, carnosulis, concavis, crebriter im- 
bricatis, extus sericeo-pubescentibus, exterioribus gradatim 
minoribus, parvis, 3 interioribus paululo majoribus et gesti- 
vatione valvatis ; petalis 6, minutissimis, squamiformibus, 
oblongis, carnosis, glabris ; staminibus 6, suberectis, fila- 
mentis breviusculis, compressis, incurvis, sequalibus, con- 
nectivo vix excurrente obtusulo, androecii brevis summo 
longissinie piloso. — In Africa sequinoctiali : v. s. in herb. Hook. 
^ , Fernando Po (Mann, 174). 
A climbing plant, 10-15 feet long, 10 feet high, with an 
aspect very difierent from the two preceding species. The axils 
are |-1| inch apart; the very coriaceous, almost orbicular leaves 
are 2j-2f inches long, 2—2^ inch broad, on a petiole about 
] inch long. The flowers in bud are globular and almost ses- 
sile ; each consists of two bracts and twelve or fifteen sepals in 
four or five series, all orbicular, concave, externally pubescent, 
all with ciliated margins, except those of the inner series, w'hich 
have a valvate aestivation and are about 1 line in diameter ; the 
six petals are orbicular, line in diameter, externally opposite 
