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The stigma is oblique, and there is generally a more or less marked one-sided constriction 
below it. It is depressed in the middle, and the depression leading to the stigmatic 
channel is clothed with minute papille. The ripe fruit consists of the enlarged 
receptacle, supported by the persistent perianth. It seems to break up from the mouth, 
thus exposing or freeing the enclosed carpels. Judging from the ripe seed, the solitary 
ovule is erect and anatropous. 
The arrangement of the apocarpous ovaries in an urn-shaped cavity is very character- 
istic of various Monimiace: ; but in these the cavity is formed by the convex torus in 
connection with the perianth-tube, and the perianth-lobes surround the mouth of this 
receptacle. In some species, however, the margin round the mouth is distinctly raised 
into a rim. If we imagine this rim enlarged and transformed into an urn-shaped : 
receptacle and at the same time the torus raised to the level of the insertion of the 
petals, we should get the same structure as we find in Scyphostegia. As to the carpels 
themselves and the seeds, there is nothing in them which would disagree with the 
general characters of Monimiaceze, though the embryo is remarkably large for the order. 
The involucre at the base of the carpels is, however, very peculiar. The material in my 
hands is hardly sufficient to clear up their development so thoroughly as I wished, 
particularly with regard to the earlier stages. Yet I have the impression that this 
involucre is not formed by true phyllomes, but is rather of the nature of trichomes and 
emergences. In various Monimiacez the tissue of the torus. protrudes. between the 
carpels so as to envelop them more or less completely, in others.it sends forth hairs 
between them. The involucre in Scyphostegia is therefore possibly an analogous growth. 
I have examined the anatomy of the branches and of the leaves, and Dr. Solereder 
of Munich was so kind as to do the same. But neither of us was able to find anything 
characteristic in the anatomical structure; the secretion=cells present in the leaves 
of most Monimiaceze were not met with in Seyphostegia. 
LAURACE.. 
LiT&EA CAULIFLORA, Stapf, n. sp. ($ Cylicodaphne) 3. Rami novelli brevissime fulvo- 
tomentelli. Folia alterna, petiolo crasso 6-8 lin. longo suffulta, oblongo-lanceolata, 
7-9 poll. longa, 2-3 poll. lata, basi breviter attenuata, apice subacuminata, tenuiter 
coriacea, supra opaca, demum glabrata vel ia cost& diutius adpresse fulvo-tomentella, 
subtus purpureo-ylaucescentia, undique tenuiter pubescentia, nervis lateralibus 
utrinque 18-20, subrectis, deinde sub margine subito prorsus arcuatis, venis transver- 
salibus distinctis, tenuiter reticulata, nervis venisque supra impressis, subtus 
prominulis. Umbellulee i racemis densis, valde abbreviatis, in acervis. interdum 
1 poll. dimetientibus, e ramis vetustis ortis. conglomerate ; peduneuli demum 
2-3 lin. longi, ut bractez involucrantes fulvo-sericei; flores circiter 6, brevissime 
pedicellati. — Perigonium extus fulvo-sericeum, 6-partitum ; segmenta obverse 
lanceolata, 2 lin. longa. Stamina 12, interiora sensim minora; filamenta extimi 
cycli 33 lin., intimi 14 lin. longa, omnia pilosa, cyclorum interiorum basi biglandu- 
laria, antheræ omnes 4-locellatæ. Ovarium rudimentarium. 
