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- nervis primariis pinnatis subtus prominulis percursa, et 
venulis transversis creberrimis arcuato-subparallelis reticulata. 
Nodi floriferi axillares, flores plures. parvos inconspicuos bre- 
viter pedicellatos ferunt. Pedicelli apice incrassati, carnosuli, 
cum toro et calycis tubo continui. Calyx minimus, subcam- 
panulatus, tubo brevissimo fere omnino adh:erente, lobis bre- 
vibus ovatis obtusis. Petala 5, oblonga, sstivatione valvata, 
apice inflexa, basi inter se cohzrentia, superne intus villosa. 
Filamenta petalis opposita, numero iis «qualia et alte adnata. 
Anthere ovato-oblongs. ^ Ovarium crasso-carnosum apice 
pulvinato-depressum et (pressione petalorum) 5-angulatum, 
prope basi intus excayatum in loculos tres spurios apice 
confluentes. Ovula 3, e parte uniloculare pendula. Stylus 
brevissimus, apice crasse stigmatosus et obsolete trilobus. 
Fructus non vidi. 
There is little doubt, even without having seen the fruit, 
that this plant is referable to Blume's genus, Strombosia, as 
characterized by Gardner, although in the Ceylonese plant, and 
probably also in the Javanese, the ovary is pentamerous, and 
the calyx adheres rather higher up. Dr. Gardner is evidently 
Correct in his views of the affinities of the genus, although 
we can scarcely agree with him and Blume in describing the 
Ovary as immersed in a fleshy disk. The thick fleshy mass 
at the base of the style appears to us to be perfectly continuous 
with, and to form part of the ovary itself, which in most Ola- 
cinee is very fleshy and thick compared with the ovuliferous 
cavity, 
RuarnrosrYL:s, Planch. (nov. gen.) 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx parvus, liber, 5-partitus. Petala 
5. Stamina totidem, iis alterna, sterilia nulla. Ovarium uni- 
loculare, ovulis 2, hinc ab apice pendulis eollateralibus. Stylus 
excentricus, basi postice gibbus, gibbo suleato. Fructus .... 
Inflorescentia axillaris.—Frutices Africe tropicis glabri. Folia 
alterna integerrima perennantia. Flores in nodos axillares 
plures pedicellati, iis Apodytis similes. ; 
l. Rhaphiostylis Beninensis, Planch. MSS.—Apodytes Beni- 
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