MH. G. BEJfTHAM OS GOODENOVIJE. 203 



Carpinus Turczaninovji, n. sp, Arbuscula circ. lO-pedalis, ra- 

 mulis junioribus sericeo pilosis, foliis coriaceis 1-1^-pollicaribus iucl. 

 petiolo 1^-2-lineali exacte ovatis acutis basi ajqualiter subcordatis 

 subduplicato-serratis serraturis callosis supra glabris nitidulis ve- 

 nisque primariis impressis notatis infra venulis conspicue et minute 

 reticulars propter venas primarias validas 10-12 paria pilosas atque 

 in axillis fovea glaudulosa lanata notatas glabris, bracteis fructiferis 

 coriaceis pallida viridulis valide 6-6-nerviis subfalcato-oblongis latere 

 convexo 7-8-dentatis altero apicem versus circiter 2-3-dentatis basi 

 parum inflexis, nuculis ovoideis 5-7 lineas longis 10-costulatis glan- 

 duloso-granulosis sesquilinearibus. 



Hab. In collibus ad occidentem urbis Peking sitis, m. Augusto 1865, 

 coll. Dr. S. W. Williams. (Exsicc. no. 12681.) 



This species (which is very near C. diiinensts, Scop., from 

 which, however, it is readily distinguishable by the thicker and 

 stifFer texture of its more ovate, less conspicuously dnplicato- 

 serrate leaves, with woolly vein-axils beneath, and by its coria- 

 ceous, narrower, falcate-oblong, much less involute fruit-bracts, 

 with far stronger and straighter nerves), though entirely over- 

 looked by A. DeCandolle in his late recension of the order, is 

 doubtless the plant enumerated by Maximowicz, in his * Index 

 Flora? Pekinensis,' without any trivial name or description, from 

 Turczaninow's collections. I have therefore dedicated it to the 

 memory of that botanist, who, by his writings and collections, 

 has done much to throw light on the flora of north-eastern Asia. 



Having examined three out of the four species placed in the 

 genus IHstegocarpus by M. Alph. DeCandolle, I entirely agree 

 with the late Prof. Blume that they have no claim to be sepa- 

 rated from Carpinus. 



]S"ote on the Stigmati</ Apparatus of Goodenoviece 

 By Geokge Bejstham, Esq., F.E.S., Pres. L.S. 



[Read December 19, 1867.] 



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vatiou of Mr. Darwin's that he believed that the impregnation 

 took place at the base of the indusium, on the outside. This I 

 could not understand, as in the genera Sc^ola and Ooodenia, 

 which I was then examining, I always found the exterior of the 

 indusium perfectly smooth, without the slightest indication of the 

 papillose structure of stigmatic surfaces, and, if covered with hairs, 

 these hairs not even irlandular/but of the same nature as the 



