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a yerj distinct plant. The aestivation of the corolla is not described, 

 but it would appear from the figure to be valvate. ^ The fruit is 

 unknown. Gbudichaud doubts whether it be capsular, as was then 

 supposed to be generally the case in Loganiacece^ and it is clear from 

 the figure that the ovary and placentae are thick and fleshy. It 

 would therefore rank artificially next to Strychnos^ with the stipular 

 dilatations of Fagrcea, a peculiar calyx, and three cells to the ovary$ 

 the only instance except Desfontainea as yet known in the Order. 

 Smce this paper was drawn up, during a hurried visit to Paris, 

 1 saw the original specimen in the herbariiun of the Jardin des 

 x^lantes. It had much the look of a Qcdrtnera^ but the inflorescence 

 was so young, that it was impossible to derive from it any further 

 information as to the structure of the flowers. 



22. NicoDEMiA, Ten, 



As already mentioned, Nicode^nias are Btcddleias with an inde- 

 niscent baccate firdt. The plant was long known as a Buddleia^ 

 tod the fruit was probably originally observed by DeCandolle, 

 who, in the 4th vol, of the ' Prodromus,' excludes Sieber*s speci- 

 mens from Buhiacecd^ where that collector had placed them, and 

 refers them with doubt to SoUmacece. Tenore was the first who 

 fully identified the fruit and flowers, and established the genus ; 



but 



untry 



intercourse with the rest of Eiirope, his Mcodemia had been long 



overlooked; and when preparing Buddleia for the 'ProdromuS; 



how 



to lead me to exclude the B. diversifoUa. I have smce, 

 eived excellent specimens fi^m Tenore, besides seeing 

 fruit mvself in the Botanical Garden at Naples, and 



doing full justi 



investigations. In describing a second Madagascar species 



self 



had 



specimens at all far advanced enough to decide tlie point 



Tribe IV. G^ETNEER*. 



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The 0<Brtnere<e, or Cofeacea with a free ovaiy, consist of three 

 genera, more intimately connected with the ciFresponding Bubmcea 

 ttan almost any other Loganiacecp, although they represent but 

 very few of the modifications observable in the extensive tribe of 

 ^offeaceoB. "W:e have only the valvate corolla of Fsychotria, not 

 tte contorted astivation of Ixova ; we have no instance of more' 



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