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*** Folia nitida, subcoriacea. Stamina 10-15. 



8. L. suaveolens (Samyda suaveolens, Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et 

 Sp. hi. p. 66. t. 274. Casinga suaveolens, Griseb. Erldut. Pfl. Trop. 

 Amer. p. 27).— Stamina saepius 10, rarius 11-12. 



Hab. Frequent on the Amazon, the Solimoes, the Rio Negro, and Casi- 

 quiare, Poeppig, R. Spruce, n. 1451, 2756 and 3451 ; also in Cayenne, 

 Martin. 



9. L. casearioides, Sagot, PI. Gui. Exs. n. 1137. (Samyda procera, 

 Poepp. et Endl. I. c. p. 67, ex descr.) 



Hab. On the Amazon, Poeppig ; French Guiana, Sagot. 



Differs slightly from L. suaveolens in the leaves rounded at the base, the 

 shorter styles, and the stamens occasionally as many as 15, or even more. 

 Grisebach has shown that the supposed new Lcetias of A. Richards' 'Flora 

 Cubensis ' are identical with his Zuelania Icetioides, a species of Thiodia 

 among Samydacese. 



Aphloia, Benn. 



Clos proposes removing this Madagascar genus to Capparidea) 

 on account of the curved embryo, without, as he supposes, any 

 albumen. In the seeds that I have examined, however, I certainly 

 find albumen, although in less quantity than in other Bixaceze, and 

 the other characters are all much more those of Bixacese than of 

 Capparideae. 



"With regard to the Mascarene or Asiatic genera Ludia and Ery- 

 throspermum, and the African Bawsonia, Bavyalis, Aberia, and Tri- 

 nieria, I have nothing to add to what has been said by Clos in the 

 above-mentioned paper, or by Harvey in his ' Flora Capensis.' 



Azaba, Buiz et Pav. 



Clos takes this genus as the type of a tribe, joining with it Ba- 

 nara, Kuhlia, and Pineda, and Bennett had already suggested that 

 Pineda might not be distinct from Azara. The calyx of the latter 

 is, however, not valvate as in Banara, nor has it the sepaline petals 

 of that genus. In most species the sepals are small, and long 

 before the expansion of the flower no longer meet at the edges, 

 but when they do, they slightly overlap. The stamens are also 

 bypogynous, or but slightly and much less perigynous than in 

 Banara (in which we include Kuhlia and Pineda). Altogether, 

 Azara appears to me to be nearly allied to Scolopia in habit as well 

 as in character, differing chiefly in the want of petals and of the 

 appendage to the connectivum of the anthers. 



We have no new species to add to the genus ; and one of those 

 already published {A. microphylla, Hook, fil.) is very anomalous 



