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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...Laws., foliis tenuibus longiuscule petiolatis floribus minoribus recedit. Rami floriferi graciles, glabri. Folia subopposita, fere membranacea, glabra, oblonga, circiter semipollicaria, acute acuminata, basi rotundata. Hucemi graciles, flexuosi, atque tiores pubescentes, pedicellis brevibus; bracteas angusta?, quam flores breviores, cito deciduae. Flares absque staminibus exsertis circiter 9 lin. longi, fere recti.--C. paniculata, Laws, in Oliver's Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 434, partim. West Tropical Africa. Onitsha, Barter, 1857. 497. Eugenia (Syzygium) masukuensis, Baker Myrtaceaa; inter E. owariensem Bsauv., et E. cordatam, Laws., medium tenens. Arbor, ramulis lignosis virgatis 4-angulatis glabris. Folia breviter petiolata, oblonga, acuta, crassa, rigide coriacea, 2-3 poll, longa, basi late rotundata, utrinque glabra, venulis immersis. Cymes multiflora, globosae, in paniculam corymbosam 2-3 poll, diam. aggregatae. Calyx sessilis, obconicus, brunneus, glaber, 2 lin. longus, dentibus parvis semiorbicularibus. Stamina calyce breviora. Petala oblonga, calyce breviora. British Central Africa. Masuku plateau, alt 65007000 ft., Wliyte. 498. Dissotis Whytei, Baker Melastomacea?; ad D. johnstonianam, Baker fil., arete accedit. Frutex ramulis lignosis 4-angulatis scabris sulcatis validue. Folia brevissime petiolata, oblonga, acuta, 3 poll, longa, basi late rotundata, e basi ad apicem 5-nervia, facie viridia scabra, dorso flavo-viridia etiam scabra. Gymai ad apices ramulorum in paniculam parvam congestae; bracteae cito decidual; pedicelli brevissimi, scabri. Calycis tubus campanulatus, 3 lin. longus, setis brevibus sparsis ascendentibus albidis munitus; lobi 5, semiorbiculares, parvi, patuli, persistentes. Petala obovato-enneata, violacea, 6 lin. longa....
