78 MB. O. BENT1IAM ON FISSICALYX. 



No. 917 and \816.=M. pyrifolium, Presl, /. c, p. 210 (no. 1816); M. 

 Cumingianum, Presl, I.e., p. 209 (no. 917).— M. clausiflorum, Naud. 

 I.e., p. 274. The petals remaining closed round the style, from whence 

 Naudin derived his name, appears to be an accidental circumstance, very 

 rare in our specimens. 



No. 1445. =M. ovatum, Sm., DC. Prod. v. iii. p. 6. — M. edule, Roxb., 

 DC. /. c.j Wall. Catal. no. 4107.— M. grande, Wall. Catal. n. 4109 — 

 M. lucidum, Presl, Epimel. Bot. p. 209. — 31. prasinum, Naud. I. c, p. 

 275; and probably some others of Wallich's catalogue. 



5. A Chinese Species of Calogyne, a Genus of Groodeniaceae. 



In a small collection of Amoy plants transmitted to me by Dr. 

 Hance as having been collected by Mr. C. P. M. de Grrijs, is a 

 Goodeniacea, curious both as being only the second species of that 

 family, besides the maritime Scarvolas, known to grow out of Au- 

 stralia, and, as belonging to the genus Calogyne, remarkable for 

 the trifid style, each branch bearing an indusium, and of which 

 one species only, from the coasts of tropical Australia, had been 

 hitherto known. Prom that species this one differs in its low 

 prostrate habit, short pedicels, and the flowers scarcely above half 

 the size, with a very short tube. It may be technically character- 

 ized as follows : — 



Calogyne chinensis, hurailis, prostrata, pilosula v. glabrescens, 

 foliis linearibus dentatis, pedicellis axillaribus brevibus reflexis, corolla: 

 tubo vix calyce longiore. — Caudex (perennis?) brevis, foliatus, ramos 

 emittens prostrates semipedales. Folia radicalia conferta, 1-1^-polli- 

 caria, ramealia dissita, breviora. Pedicelli alii in caudice intra folia 

 subradicales, alii ad axillas foliorum ramealiuin solitarii, 2-3 lin. longi. 

 Flores vix 4 lin. longi. Stylus trifidus omnino Culogyna, ovarium 

 tamen 2-loculare videtur. Capsula certe bivalvis bilocularis. Semina 

 in quoque loculo plurima orbiculata compressa ut in C. pilosa, Br. 

 Flores odorem Anthoxanthi spirare dicuntur. 



Hab. Near Amoy, De Griis (Hance, n. 1422). 



On Fissicalyx, a new Genus of Dalberg'>ecc. By Geouoi; 

 Benth1\*, Esq., V.P.L.S. 



[Read May 3rd, I860.] 



In my Synopsis of Dalbergiece in the supplemental part of the 

 fourth volume of this Journal, p. 17, I referred to a specimen of 

 Pendler's as indicating a new genus with a spathaceous calyx. I 



