Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinaceae. 491 



tails of this species given in the ' Linnsea/ though marked on 

 the plate as having been drawn by Reisseck, form a perfect fac- 

 simile of the plate in the ' Iconographia ' above-quoted, which is 

 a production of the pencil of Ferd. Bauer, and published four 

 years previously ; but in that of the ' Linnsea ' several figures are 

 added which do not exist in the other, giving sections of the 

 ovarium, which are manifestly founded on error ; for the ovule is 

 there represented as being suspended at its apex from a long 

 podosperm, springing from the base of the cell, as in Rhus. 

 Much faith is to be placed on the drawings of Bauer, who has 

 the reputation of having always correctly depicted what he saw, 

 and it is therefore necessary to make a remark in regard to the 

 figures in question, in which the ovarium is represented as 

 bearing no style, but crowned with a pulvinate, 3-lobed, sessile 

 stigma : this is so difi'erent from what I have observed in the 

 young flowers of the species from New Holland, that I suspect 

 the drawing was made from flowers advanced in age, where, by the 

 growth of the ovarium, the styles had become obliterated, and 

 the stigmata rendered sessile. Cunningham^s specimens of the 

 same plant are fructiferous only, and the berries are all crowned 

 with a sessile stigma, so that I am unable to solve the doubt as 

 to the fact in question, otherwise than from analogy, as shown in 

 the preceding pages. 



The lower leaves of this species are described by Endlicher as 

 being 7^ inches long and 5 inches broad, but in the specimens 

 in Sir Wm. Hooker^s herbarium the upper leaves are 4i^ inches 

 long, 2~ inches broad, narrowed to the base into a somewhat 

 slender petiole | inch in length ; they are shining, very thick and 

 coriaceous: the corymb has its branches spreading broadly at 

 nearly right angles, and is about 3 inches long. The fruit is an 

 oval drupe, much smaller than the other two species, being only 

 4 lines long, and encloses a 3-gonous nut 3 lines in length*. 



§ 2. Dermatocarpus. Putamen ovatum coriaceum. 



3. Pennantia Cunninghami, n. sp. ; — omnino glaberrima, ramulis 

 teretibus, fistulosis, lenticellis pallidis verruculosis, foliis ob- 

 longis, utrinque acutis, apice acuminatis et mucronulatis, crasso- 

 coriaceis, supra lucidis, nervis venisque immersis, subtus pal- 

 lidioribus, nervis rubentibus prominulis, integris, margine sub- 

 reyoluto undulatis, minutissime pellucido-punctulatis, petiolo 

 canaliculato : paniculis corymbosis, terminalibus, et axillaribus, 

 glabris, multifloris, folio dimidio brevioribus : alabastris ovoi- 

 deo-oblongis, ^ staminibus demum exsertis, filamentis brevio- 



* This plant, with carpological details, will be shown in plate 11 of the 

 * Contributions to Botany,' &c. 



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