Although there is a general coincidence in habit and in the flowers, yet the fruits and the seeds are so variable that by many they have been made the grounds for separation into distinct genera. The varying position of the radicle with reference to the hilum particularly needs the study of the fresh specimens in all stages of development. In the Kew Museum are specimens of a Sterculiaceous fruit, from the Rovuma river, collected by Dr. Kirk, without leaves or flowers, and of which no corresponding specimens exist in the herbarium. As the fruits and seeds seem distinct from any other African species, a description is appended. —Follicles 4–(5 ?), spreading, oblong, cylindrical, subsessile or on a short very thick stipes, slightly acuminate or rostrate at the apex, woody, densely covered with a ferruginous tomentum, whitish within. Seeds numerous, oblong, obtuse, subtetragonal, nearly an inch in length, suspended by rather long, slender, funicles; testa coriaceous, bright yellow, apparently succulent when fresh; tegmen dark brown, thicker than the testa, horny; albumen horny; radicle next the hilum.  Dr. Kirk adds that the outer portions of the seed yield an abundance of oil. Is this referable to Cola quinqueloba, Garcke? From the same botanist are specimens, labelled, “Tette, 2. Common, from Batoka to Shupanga, Nov. 1860;” and another, “Rovuma, small tree. Leaves palmate.” These two specimens are evidently of the same species, both are said to yield oily seeds, but they appear different from that above described. No leaves or flowers accompany the specimens, which consist merely of fruiting-branches, bearing at their extremities 4–5 verticillate, woody follicles, each raised on a slender stipes, 1/2 in. in length and oblong acuminate, somewhat compressed, often arcuate, in form, covered with reddish down on the exterior, less thickly so on the inner surface, widely dehiscent along the ventral suture. Seeds immature, purplish. The follicles appear to burst early, as in Firmiana, but they are thick and woody in texture and a whitish gum exudes from them.