294 VEGETATION OF THE FEEJEE ISLANDS. 
ciliolatis tubo dimidio brevioribus discum epigynum paullo 
superantibus. Corolle tubus 2 lin. longus, extus pubescens, 
lacinie paullo breviores, lanceolate. ^ Antherce lineares. 
Stylus laciniis corollinis paullo longior? stigmate integer- 
rimo? Bacce magnitudine grani piperis, globosee, nigre; 
oligosperme. Feejee Islands, Mr. Hinds (with ripe fruit 
only. Friendly Islands, Mr. Barclay, (in young fruit with 
the remains of a single flower). 
Lasiostoma Joranthifolia, gen. nov. New Guinea, Mr. 
Hinds. 
Char. Gen. Lasiostoma. Calycis limbus breviter urceo- 
latus, integer. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo brevi, limbo 
4-partito, laciniis zestivatione valvatis, intus basi paleis 
pilisve membranaceis dense hispidis. Antheree in superiore 
tubo insertz, oblongze, subincluse. Ovarium biloculare, 
loculis multiovulatis, disco crasso coronatum. Stylus fili- | 
formis, stigmate clavato. Bacca subbipartibilis, bilocularis.- 
Semina numerosa, minuta, pendula, in placenta carnosa axi- 
interne affixa nidulantia.—S. loranthifolia, foliis late obovatis — 
obtusissimis. Tota glabra. Rami crassi, carnosi, siccitate 
rugosi. Stipule breves, vaginantes, truncate, juniores ae 1 
tezre, mox irregulariter rupte, et tardius evanide. Folia 
subsessilia, pleraque bipollicaria, integerrima, basi cuneata, - x 
crasso-coriacea, obscure penninervia. Flores in capitulis 
axillaribus nodiformibus sessiles. Calyces floridi carnosuli, 
cum bracteis intra capitulum immersi, limbo discum ovat! 
subeequante. Corolla omnino exserta, 1} lin-longa, extus 
glabra, subcarnosa; faux et laciniarum pars inferior intus - 
paleis angustis hyalinis densissime hirte, tubus glaber. - | 
Bacca ovoidea, 1j lin-longa, disco carnoso et calycis limbo —— 
brevissimo coronata. _ eb 
This plant has so strong a resemblance to Gaudich ud's : 2 
figure of Myrmecodia inermis (Freyc. Voy. t. 95.) that td 
should have been much tempted to consider it as the same, — 
were it not that I find the structure of the ovary and fruit 
so completely at variance with his description. It is true. 
that with an ordinary pocket glass the placente have, espe" 
