70 ME. BENTHAM'S synopsis or LEGNOTIDEiB, 



Singapore, where, amongst other places. Dr. Wallich gathered the 

 original species. 



There are some slight inaccuracies in Blume's dissections of 

 Oynotroches. The disk is very incorrectly represented, and in 

 fig. N + , one stamen is inserted outside, and another inside of 

 it; in fact, the filaments are united at their very base into a 

 narrow ring just outside the crenulated margin of the very short 

 disk, whilst the petals are inserted outside the staminal ring. In 

 figs. I-f and N-}-, the seeds are shown as attached by their lower 

 instead of their upper end. So in fig. O 4- , the hilum should be 

 represented as near the upper broad extremity, and the upper 

 slender end of the embryo should be the entire radicle, the lower 

 and thicker end being split into the two cotyledons. 



Ceossosttles. 

 Forster's detailed description of his Grossostyles hijlora, pub- 

 lished by Guillemin in his ' Zephyritis Taitensis ' (Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Par. ser. 2. vii. p. 353), enabled Asa Grray to recognize it in 

 ohe plant which he has figured and described in detail in the 

 Botany of the American Exploring Expedition.' Unfortunately 

 these specimens were in some respects imperfect, and the seed has 

 not yet been described. I have, however, little hesitation in 

 referring to the same genus, as a second species, some fruiting 

 specimens collected on the Feejee Islands by Dr. Harvey, differing 

 from the G. hiflora chiefly in the smaller narrow leaves and in the 

 reduced number of parts of the pistil. The remains of the stamens 

 show that their insertion and numbers were about the same as in 

 C. hiflora; but there is nothing to indicate the presence or absence of 

 the nectaries of Foster, or sterile stamens of A. Grray, so peculiarly 

 characteristic of this genus. It is not stated by either, whether 

 they are precisely in the same ring as the stamens, or a little 

 withinside of them. If the latter supposition be correct, they 

 probably represent, not sterile stamens, but the teeth of the disk, 

 which are more or less prominent within the stamens in several 

 LegnotidecB. If really alternating with the stamens in the same 

 verticil, there is nothing in the slightest degree analogous to 

 them in any other genus. The seed of Grossostyles Harveyi has 

 an embryo much nearer to that of Gassipourea than that of Gyno- 

 trocJies. 



Ansteutheeia. 

 This genus was originally proposed by Dupetit Thenars in his 

 * Grenera Nova Madagascariensia,' under the name of Bichcdia. It 



