398 Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinacese^ 



8-jugis, subtus demissu fulvo-tonientosis^ rachi versus basiil 

 valde prominentia petiolo crasso, canaliculato,, tomentoso ; 

 panicula terminali^ tomentosa, multiflora, ramo ramulisque 

 crassis, pedicellis confertis^ cum floribus articulatis ; drupa 

 san guinea pilosa, majuscula, pulposa, putamine rugoso, nigro^ 

 — Neilgberries ; v. s. in herb. Champion. 



This is also a very distinct species : the leaves are much 

 channelled at both extremities, and the midrib is very prominent 

 towards the base,: so that the continuous thick petiole stands at 

 a considerable angle with the plane of the blade ; they are smooth 

 above, and below are thickly covered with dense yellowish tomen- 

 tum ; they are 6 inches long, and 2| broad, on a petiole 1 inch 

 in length ;• the panicle is 4 inches long, its stem being 3 lines 

 thick. The specimen in Capt. Champion's herbarium is very 

 short, so that the lower leaves are probably much larger : the 

 berry is nearly an inch in length and | inch in diameter. 



10. Mappia montana. Nothapodytes montana, Bl. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd. Bat. 248 ; — arbor ramosissima, ramis dichotomo-ramu- , 

 losis, foliis sparsis, oblongis vel lanceolatis^ utrinque angustatis, 

 integerrimis, subcoriaceis, glabris, supra lucidis, subtus reti- 

 culato-venosis, petiolatis ; paniculis corymbosis axillaribus vel 

 infra gemmam terminalem ortis, cum alabastris pube sericea 

 obductis ; floribus parvis, brevissime pedicellatis, subcalyee 

 articulatis, ebracteatis. — -Java. 



As the features offered by Prof. Blume in the work above cited,, 

 of his genus Nothapodytes, quite correspond with those of Map- 

 pia, I feel no hesitation in considering these genera as identical > 

 the characters of this species there given, being also analogous 

 to the plants above described, and the proximity of the countries 

 of their origin, all seem to confirm this conclusion. "^ ^ "^^ . „^^T 



Desmostachys. (1 i' '^oioaqe sao ac 



I propose to establish this genus upon a plant of very peculiar > 

 habit from Madagascar, which I have found in the herbaria of 

 Dr. Lindley and Sir William Hooker, remarkable for its several 

 slender spicated racemes, growing out of each axil, whence its 

 generic name, and which I adopt upon a manuscript suggestion 

 of Dr. Planchon. It resembles Mappia in the structure of its 

 flowers, but the floral parts are far more delicate and membra- 

 naceous in texture, and retain their yellowish colour in drying > 

 the stamens and style are marked with numerous pellucid dots, 

 and the anther- cells are thin and membranaceous ; the ovarium 

 is covered with very long setose hairs and is seated on a distinctly 

 5-lobed disk. 



