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332 PLANTS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 



TiMONlus NGOYENSIS Sclileclitor. Nekaiido ; Spermolejns forest; lOOO H.\ 

 serpentine. 985. Small diffuse tree, Tniit with 5 carpels and 8 seeds 

 in one row to each carpel; hard, stony endocarp, 



1\ rLATYCARPUS Montrouz. Baie Uie ; serpentine scruh ; 50 ft. 850. 

 Nekando, SpcrmoJeph forest ; 1000 ft. : serpentine. ^d^2. Ilivcr N<2;oye ; 

 among rocks in stream-course ; serpentine; 400 ft. 2094, Port Bouquet; 

 lowland riverside ser[iei]tine scruh ; 50 ft. 22 J 3. Shruh or small tree up to 

 15 ft. Corolla white speckled AviHi pink, or pink or red with the linih white. 

 The female flowers have a lO-celled ovary, the hermaphrodite a 3-colIed. 



CYCLoruYLLUjr CYMOSUM S. Moore, sp. nov. Frutex glaher vel arbuscula ; 

 rauiulis subteretibus fuscis; foliis amplis sessilibus subscssilibusve ovatis Ijasi 

 late rotundatis tenulter coriaceis costls lateralibus panels mediocriter 

 conspicuis 12-13*5 x 5-G cm. ; stipulis triangularibus acnminatis usque 

 G*5 mm, long. ; forihus In cynias breves axillares pcdunculatas plurifloras foliis 

 niuUo breviores (4x4 cm.) dispositis; hradeis parvis triangularibus acutis 

 quam podicclli pauUo brevioribus; ovario l'5-2 nun. long, turbinato pcdicello 

 vci^vo a)quilongo; calj/cis limbo 1 mm. long, dontibus deltoideis ncutis; coroihe 

 liy[)ocraterimorphse tubo clongiito 15 mm. long, sub limbo leviter ami)liato 

 ceterum cylindrico intus glabro lobis 5-G'5 mm. long, ovato-oblongis 

 obtusis ; starnimbus fauci inserlis antheris subsessilibus apice ex ori enunente 

 oblongis obtusis 3 nnn.long. ; stylo corolho vix soquilongo glabro; stigmate 

 pyrifornii culmlne excavate ; ovulo ex apice ipso loculi pendente. 



Ignambi ; forest : 1500-2000 ft. ; gneiss. 1G81. 



Being reluctant to describe this very distinct plant as the type of a new^ 



genus, it is proposed to place it in Cydopliijllum Hook, f., from which it 

 differs in two points, namely the cymoso (not solitary) flowers and the 

 corolla with a naked throaty both of them, it must be admitted, characters of 



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importance in liubiacetP. Hooker's type species^ C. Deplanchei^ has, as 

 Baillon (A<]ansonia, xii. 183 sqq.) shows^ several New Caledonian congeners; 



but the Fr(>nch botanist regards CyclophyJliim as a section merely of Canildiuit, 



thereby failing to recognise, besides the large corollas, tw^o important 

 differences, the jiyriforui stigma and the apical (not septal) insertion of the 

 ovules. 



MeutsmostigmAj Ruhiacearum e tribu Vangueriearum genus novum. 



CaJycis limbns cupularis, obscure denticulatus. Corolla subrotata lobis quam 

 tubus latus longioribus, tubo intus pulvlnis 5 lobis oppositis jM'pedito. Stamina 

 5, corollas ori affixa, filameutis brevibus antheris dorso afhxis ]ineari-obIon"is 

 obtusis exsertis. Discus elevatus, prominens, Ocariam 2-loculare ; stylus 

 filiformis; stigma biramosum. Ovula in loculis solitaria, ab apice scpti 



pendula. Friwtus . Arbuscula ghibra, in sicco fuscescens. Hamuli 



crcbro foliosi. Folia petiolata, tenuiter coriacca. Slipyahe breves, connatoc, 

 diutulc persistentes. Flores submediocres, pedicellati, incymas pcdunculatas, 



