IVir. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinaceae. 117 



_"; jtusiusculo acuminatis, et pauUulo attenuatis (junioribus^lairi- 

 . ^ceolatis), coiiaceis, supra pallidis, venis valdc reticulatis pro- 

 ^^j minulis, subtus stramineis, nervis venisque prominentibus, 

 ".^ margine cartilagineo, petiolo subtenui, canaliculate, rugoso; 

 ^^ racemo gracili, extra-axillari, folio magno multo longiori, 

 .|^ floribus 1-4 niinusculis, in fasciculis subsessilibus aggregatis, 

 .^ articulatis, calyce pilosulo, drupa ovali, breviter pedicellata. — 

 [[ India Orientalis ad Travancore. — v. s. in herb,^ Hook. j^Wiqht^ 

 943, cum descript, cl Boot. Klein), ^V ^ ^^^^"^^ 



The brancblets are slender and somewhat scandent ; the leaves 

 are of a pallid hue on both sides, but a little more yellow be- 

 neath ; they are of a very coriaceous substance, rather polished, 

 with raised reticulations above, the margins somewhat revolute 

 and cartilaginous, with the nervures and reticulated veins very 

 prominent beneath ; they are 6 to 8^ inches long, 2f to 3f inches 

 broad, on a short, deeply channelled petiole half an inch in length, 

 and transversely rugous as in Platea ; the raceme arises from the 

 side of the stem opposite to that on which the petiole is inserted, 

 as in some species of Stemonurus; it is about 11 inches long, 

 very slender, and charged for nearly its whole length with 

 clusters of few flowers, in which the calyx is somewhat pilose, 

 but the petals are quite glabrous, and retain their yellow colour 

 in drying ; they are about a line in length. The drupe is sup- 

 ported by its calyx and corolla, both unchanged, withered, and 

 persistent, upon the gynophorus, w^hich is now elongated to a 

 pedicel of the length of 1^ line; it is 11 lines long, and 7 lines 

 broad when dried ; a single drupe alone remains in the specimen 

 referred to. Dr. Klein in his manuscript note says, that sevieral 

 aggregated lengthened racemes sometimes grow out of the leafless 

 nodes of the old wood*. ,mi>^rx;Jiqii8 iJOiyJ 



2. Sarcostigma Vogelii, n. sp. ; — sufirutex glaberrimus, ramulis 

 teretibus, subrugosis; foliis majusculis, oblongis, utrinque 

 acuminatis, apice acute et breviter attenuatis, coriaceis, gla- 

 berrimis, supra pallidis, subtus flavescentibus, nervis venisque 

 reticulatis et transversis prominentibus, petiolo brevissimo, 

 canaliculato, rugoso ; racemo spicato, extra-axillari, longissimo, 

 gracili, floribus subaggregatis, articulatis, caducis ; di'upa car- 

 nosa, inibra, pendula. — Guinea ad Cap. Palmas. — v. s. in herb. 



, Hook. (Vogel, 25, 27 et 68). 



' This plant was collected in the Niger Expedition by Dr. Vb^el, 

 who describes it as a shrub [strauch) : it bears very much the 

 .t^iti^i^^. appearance of the^fonn^r ^epiesy but the leaves are 



,f, * A drawing of this plant, with details of the structure of its female 

 iSowers, will be given in plate 18 of the ' Contributions to Botany,* &c. 



