388 Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinacese. 



polygami, sicco nigrescentes. Calyx parvus, 5-clentatus, per- 

 sistens. Petala 5, linearia, carnosula, glabra, hypogyna, 

 sestivatione valvata, demum patentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis 

 inserta, iis alterna, et fere sequilonga : filamenta compressa, 

 subulata, erecta ; anther m lineari-oblongse, 2-lobse, basi ad me- 

 dium bifidse, in sinu dorsifixse, ssepe glandulis resinosis asperse, 

 lobis parallelis, connectivo tenuissimo connatis, singulatim 

 2-locellatis, demum septicidis et longitudinaliter evolutim 

 dehiscentibus. Pollen trigonum. Ovarium liberum, oblon- 

 gum, valde gibbum, disco parvo suiFultum, i-loculare ; ovula 

 2 juxta apicem loculi subcoUateraliter superposita, podospermio 

 crassiusculo suspensa, anatropa. Stylus elongatus, subulatus, 

 fiexuosus. Stigma clavatum, sub-3-lobum. (" Drupa baccata, 

 dimidiato-ovato-reniformis, stylo hinc coronata, et lateraliter 

 appendice carnoso aucto, nucleo osseo monospermo. Semen 

 pendulum, ovato-reniforme, compressum, testa tenui, albumine 

 copioso, carnoso, nigro. Embryo in medio albuminis parvus, 

 axilis, juxta hilum positus, rectus, radicula breve ad hilum 

 spectante." Benth. loo. cit.) — Arbores capenses et Asiaticce, 

 folia altema, ovata, integra, coriacea, glabra, petiolata. In- 

 florescentia paniculata, terminalis ; flores parvuli, cum pedicellis 

 brevibus articulati, bracteolis minimis, caducis. 



1. Apodytes dimidiata, E. Mey. ; Arnott, Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 

 155; Benth. Linn. Trans, xviii. 684; — ramulis sulcato-an- 

 gulatis, junioribus pubescentibus ; foliis ovatis vel oblongis, 

 acutis vel retusis, coriaceis, supra glaberrimis, subtus pube 

 rara conspersis, margine cartilagineo revolutis, petiolo sub- 

 brevi, canaliculate ; paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, valde 

 ramosis, creberrime floribundis, antheris linearibus, profunde 

 bifidis, crustaceis, glanduloso-echinatis, ovario flavide sericeo. 

 — C. B. S. ad Krakakamma, Prov. Uitenhage (Zeyher, Drege, 

 Harvey) ; Port Natal (Krauss, 95). 



The different specimens vary in the size and shape of the 

 leaves, and in their more or less glaucous or pruinose hue ; they 

 are generally from 1 ^ to 2^ inches long, f to 1 inch broad, on a 

 petiole of 3 lines in length. 



Var. /8. capensis', — foliis utrinque acutioribus, glauco-pruinosis, 

 glaberrimis, crasso-coriaceis, margine cartilagineo revolutis, 

 petiolo quam prsecedenti duplo longiore et tenuiori, subsca- 

 brido. — C. B. S. (Masson) ; Uitenhage (Drege). 



I can hai'dly affirm this to be a distinct species, although it is 

 very different in its aspect, and remarkable for the much 

 greater length of its petioles; the leaves are more glaucous, 

 thicker, and more coriaceous, upon petioles twice as long, with 



