ENUMERATION 



OF THE DRIFT-SEEDS AND SEED-VESSELS 1 COLLECTED OFF 

 THE COAST OF NEW GUINEA. 



ANONACEiE. 



There are remains of three different species of this order from the New Guinea drift. 

 One is a small free seed, not more than a quarter of an inch in diameter, the genus of 

 which is quite uncertain ; the second is a one-seeded stipitate carpel of a species of 

 Polyaltkia or Ellipeia ; and the third is a naked seed of unusual shape, which may belong- 

 to the genus Artabotrys, or to a new one. It resembles the seed of Artabotrys odora- 

 tissimus, Blume (Fl. Jav., Anon. p. 53, t. 31 B., fig. 8), but instead of being truncate at 

 the base, it is hollowed. 



MENISPERMACE/E. 



Chleenandra ovata, Miq. ? (Plate LXIV., A.) 



Chlcenandra ovata, Miq. 1 in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bot ., iv. p. 83 ; Beccari, Malesia, i. p. 141. 

 New Guinea drift. 



Dr Beccari, who has devoted so much of his life to the investigation of the flora of the 

 Malayan Archipelago and New Guinea, and to whom a drawing of this empty water-worn 

 seed-vessel was sent, agrees with us that it is a Menispermacea, and he suggests that it 

 may be Chlcenandra ovata, Miq., of which, however, we can find no description of the 

 fruit. In order to make sure that we had the same thing in view, Dr Beccari returned the 

 drawing, together with half a fruit in the same macerated condition as the one represented 

 in our plate, though it is just possible that his fruit may belong to a different species, for 

 the vascular structure is not the same in the two. In the one he sends the wavy plates 

 are deeply channelled. Whether there be two or not, the fruit is larger than that of any 

 other member of the order that we have seen, though Hcernatocarpus thomsoni, Miers, 

 (Contrib. Bot,, iii. p. 325, t. 134 ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 106), is not far inferior in 

 size, being, without the stipes, an inch and three quarters long. But the HcBynatocarpus is 

 nearly oval in shape, whereas the present would seem to have been nearly spherical. The 



1 Bare names without references arc given of most of those species already mentioned in this Part. 



