|.jl6 Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinacese. 



margin, and hollow in the centre. This process therefore, as in 

 Stemonurus, would seem to be a growth subsequent to the 

 period of impregnation : it will be remembered that a somewhat 

 analogous succeeding development on the summit of the ovarium 

 has been described in the case of Apodytes. In the rugous sur- 

 face of its putamen, as recorded in the manuscript of Dr. Klein, it 

 resembles Mappia and Stemonurus. Dr. Vogel collected another 

 species, now iirst described, at Cape Palmas, on the Guinea coast 

 of Africa ; in its general appearance, the size and shape of its 

 leaves, and in its singularly long, slender, spicated inflorescence, 

 it bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Klein^s plant and to that 

 from Java, and although all the flowers have fallen off at the 

 articulations with the pedicels, the identity of the genus cannot 

 be mistaken. The following generic character has been derived, 

 partly from my own observations as far as the specimen I have 

 seen has afforded evidence, partly from Dr. Klein^s original notes, 

 and I have since added other features from Mr. Brown's de- 

 scription : — ......... ,,. , ^ . .. „. r.-'^. 



-iiaa 6xiJ fbiflwm) iKif tot 3ti=^oqqo ffl^ , . 



Sarcostigma, w, & A. — Flores polygami. Calysc mmimus, 



breviter cupulatus, obtuse 5-dentatus, persistens. Petala 5, 



lineari-oblonga, glabra, imo disci stipitati adnata, sestivatione 



valvata, sub anthesi patentim reflexa, marcescentia et persis- 



tentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iis alterna et sequi- 



longa, in flor. fern, sterilia et subbreviora ; filamenta linearia, 



- compressa, in sterilibus apice antheris fere obsoletis 2-loba, 



(in fertilibus antherce ovales, versatiles, loculis parallelis, ap- 



proximatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, sec. eel. R. Br.). 



Ovarium in flor. masc. parvura, sterile, pubescens, in flor. feii|. 



cylindricum ventricosum pubescens, disco seu gynophoro breyi 



tereti stipitatum, 1-loculare; ovula 2 ex apice loculi subcolla- 



teraliter superposita, podospermio carnosa suspensa: {stylus 



brevis crassus et stigma capitatum sec. Klein) : in ovario ado- 



lescente, stylus nullus, nisi id quod videmus in discum sessilem 



stigmoideum umbraculiformem margine crenatum centro ca- 



> jvum demum mutatum, et stigma verum centrale proinde obso- 



.onietum. Drupa oblonga, compressa, monopyrena; put amen 



^ofq^ugosum ; csetera ignota. — Frutices Asia meridionalis, Java, et 



'iRoAfrica tropicce, subscandentes ; folia majuscula, altei-na, oblonga, 



^'^"iGoriacea, glaberrima, breviter petiolat a ; racemi longissimi, gra- 



ciles, simplicite?' spicati e fasciculis \-4i-floris alternis ; flores 



[<y^uny^culij sicce flavi, cum pedicellis fere obsoletis articulati, et 



cito caduci, 



1. Sarcostigma Kleinii, W. & A. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xiv. 



299 ; — subscandens, glaberrima, laxe ramosa, ramuhs tere- 



'^"IJbus: foliis oblonoris, basi rotundatis vel subacutis, apice ob- 



