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642 plants javanice rar10res.

Cola.

Sterculise subgenus Cola, Endl. Gen.

Char. Gen. Calyx 5-fidus, patens. Anther a (10) sim- plici serie ; loculis divaricatissimis ! Ovaria multiovulata. Stigmata sessilia, distincta, filiformia. Fotticuli dehiscentes, polyspermi (quandoque monospermi). $?^zVz«exalbuminosa. Radicida embryonis hilo proxima. — Arbores foliis indivisis glabris.

237] 05s. Ad hoc genus vix pertinet planta e Sierra Leone, ab Afzelio lecto, liabitu quidem simili, stipiti genitalium nullo, stigmatibus distinctis sessilibus, floribus axillaribus, foliis cuneato-ellipticis basi attenuatis utrinque glaberrimis glabris, sed diversa antherarum loculis parallelis.

Cola acuminata, foliis elliptico-oblongis acuminatis basi acutiuscula adultis utrinque glabris, calycibus alte 5-fidis, genitalibns sessilibus.

Sterculia acuminata, Palis. Flor. d : ' Oivare, i, p. 41, t. 24.

grandiflora, Vent. Malm, ii, p. 91 in adnot.,

ranmlus cum racemo hermapbrodito-fe- mineo.

— nitida, Vent. Malm., 1. c, ramulus floribus

masculis.

macrocarpa, Bon, Diet, i, p. 515.

verticillata, Schumach. Plant, gain., p. 240.

oblongifolia, BeCand. Prodr. i, p. 482 ?

Lunania Bichy, BeCand. Prodr. ii, p. 92. Loc. Nat. In Africa iEquinoctiali ad Sierra Leone, Congo ; a nigritis olim in Antillis introducta; culta etiam in Brasilia, Mexico ?, et Insula Mauritii.

C. cor di folia, foliis orbiculato-ovatis cordatis indivisis passimque semitrilobis adnltis subter pubescentibus, calycibus urceolatis semi- 5-fidis, genitalibns brevissime stipitatis.

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