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nature of this, whence and how it came there ; for in the flower 

 the smaller corresponding divisions of the calyx are quite smooth 

 within, without any indication of a scale. Can it be a stamen de- 

 tached from its normal position in the flower, and transferred with 

 a portion of the mai'gin of the disk to the site shown in the seg- 

 ments which surround the fruit ? All I can say on this point is 

 that the fact is unquestionably manifest. 



A scale in a similar position, upon each enlarged division of the 

 calyx, in the fruit of C. tomentosa, is also shown in fig. 4, tab. 241 

 of the ' Flora Peruviana.' 



Iodina. 



This genus was proposed in 1833 by Hooker and Arnott, for a 

 plant previously known and referred to Ilex and Celastrus. 

 Endlicher, who acknowledged Ioclina in 1840, considered it a 

 doubtful genus of the Hicinece* lieisseck 1 , in 1861, excluded it from 

 that family, assigning it a position in Santalacece near Thesium ; 

 at the same time indicating its floral characters in greater detail, 

 accompanied by a good drawing. In 1851, I thought the genus 

 belonged to Olacacece 1 ; and in 1853 it was classed by me accord- 

 ingly 3 . In 1862, 13aillon adopted this view 4 , associating Iodina 

 with Cervantesia in a distinct group (CerwntesiecB). Prof. De 

 Candolle in forgetfulness has taken no notice of the genus. 

 Messrs. Bentham and Hooker, in 1862, referred Iodina to the San- 

 talacece 5 ; but it cannot belong there, on account of its distinct 

 calyx and corolla. That it is intimately related to Cervantesia 

 there can be no doubt ; and it now appears to me clear that neither 

 of them belong to Olacacece, but must be classed in Styracece. 



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lo dis x y Ho o/c.et Am. — Celastrus, ex parte, auct. (Char.etnendatus.) 



Calyculus* brevissime stipitatus, imo hemisphaerice cupulatus, latere 

 externo in lobuin erectum acutum prolongatus, calyce dimidio brevior, 

 subhirsutus. Calyx 7 ovatus, fere ad basin 5-partitus ; lacinia acute 

 oblonga, vix expansa, concava, apice subinflexa, carnosula, extus pilo- 

 sula, intus scabridula, ad medium fasciculo pilorum donata, sestivatione 

 valvata. Corolla calyce subbrevior, imo tubulosa; tubus brevissimus, 

 ad ovarium arete adnatus ; segmenta 9 5, cuneato-deltoidea, truncata, 



1 Flor. Bras. fasc. xxviii. p. 77, tab. 23. 2 Contrib. to But. i. p. 29. 



3 In Lindley s Veg. Kingi p. 444 a. 4 Adansonia, iii. p. 125. 



6 Gen. Plant, i. p. 345. 6 "Braetea" (Bentham k Hook.). 



7 " Calyx aut perigonium " (Reisseek). • u Disci hhi" (Reisseek). 





