CAPT. BEDDOME ON A NEW GENUS OF TERNSTREMIACEE. 267 
Pl. Afr. austr. 127 ; Glycine moniliformis et G. micrantha, Hochst. 
in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 211 & 212. 
Hab. Eastern Africa from Natal to Abyssinia, Ceylon and the Indian 
peninsula, including the specimens from Nilgherri, Hohenacker, 
n. 1594, distributed by some mistake on my authority under the name 
of Shuteria vestita. 
Johnia Petitiana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 210, t. 40, Soja angusti- 
folia, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1. 223, and S. hamata, Miq.1. c. 224, 
are unknown to me. 
On a new Genus of Ternstremiacee. By Captain R. H. Beh 
DOME, Officiating Conservator of Forests, Madras. Communi- 
cated by Dr. T. Tuomson, F.L.S. 
[Read November 17, 1864.] 
[Prate XVIT.] 
PacILONEURON. 
Calyx 5-parted, divisions equal, imbricate; petals 5, contorted. 
Stamens about twenty on a tube surrounding the base of the 
ovary, which is cither inconspicuous and entire or more pro- 
minent and 5-cleft so that the stamens are subpentadelphous ; 
anthers erect, affixed by their base, long, linear. Styles 2, 
stigmas filiform. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. 
Capsule not known.  Panicles terminal. Leaves opposite, with 
close parallel venation, minutely reticulated. 
P. Ispıcum (Beddome). A tree. Leaves ovato-oblong, with a 
long acumination, glabrous; panicles terminal, many-flowered ; 
flowers yellowish white; calyx, peduncles, and pedicels slightly 
puberulous. 
Western slopes of the Nilgiris; 3000 feet elevation. A large tree, 
said to yield a valuable timber. 
On the Naturalized Weeds of British Kaffraria. By W. S. M. 
D’Ursäs, Esq, F.L.S. Ina letter to Dr. Hookzn, V.P.LS. 
[Read November 17, 1864.] 
Newport, near Exeter, 
Noy. 3, 1864. 
My prar Dn. Hooxer,—You asked me last spring to draw up 
a Note on the Naturalized Weeds of British Kaffraria, and I fully 
intended to have complied with your request long ere this. I 
have, however, been so incessantly occupied with my Botanical 
Classes in Exeter and other engagements, that I have been un- 
