dH Analyses of Books, [Nov* 



Stylus staminibns longior. Stigma simplex. Bacca ovata, 

 quadrilocularis, tetrasperma. 



Parasitica basi tuberosa,Jlores hasibus petiolorum semitecti. 



MYRMfeCODIA TUBEJIOSA. 



Nidus germinans formicarum rubrarum. Rumph, Amb, vi. 

 p, 119. t. 55.Jig. 2. Found at Pulo Nias. 



" This singular plant is found parasitic upon old trees, in the 

 form of a large irregular tuber, from which arise a few thick, 

 short, fleshy branches. 2'ke Leaves are crowded at the rounded 

 extremities of these branches, and are opposite, petiolate, obo- 

 vate-oblong, with a short acumen, attenuated to the petiole, 

 entire, very smooth, somewhat leathery. Petioles long, round- 

 ish, inserted on a large persistent peltate knob, whose edges 

 expand into a kind of stipule, ciHated along the margin with 

 dense strigose fibres, and cleft above in the axil of the petiole. 

 l^hejfowers are sessile, closely disposed in the spaces between 

 the stipular bases of the petioles and half concealed under their 

 projecting edges. Calyx membranaceous, superior, nearly 

 entire. Corolla white, tubular, quadrifid ; segments erect, ratheV 

 acute ; a villous ring within the tube immediately below the 

 insertion of the stamens. Stamens four, shorter than the corolla, 

 and alternate with its segments ; anthers white, two-celled. 

 Style longer than the stamens. Stigma simple, tomentose. 

 Ovary four-celled, four-seeded. Berry ovate, smooth, white 

 with longitudinal lines, four-celled, four-seeded. Seeds furnished 

 with albumen ; embryo in its axis. 



" There can be no doubt of this being the plant described by 

 Rumphius, although the leaves are represented more acute in 

 his figure than they are in my specimens." 



HYDNOPHYTUM. 



Tetrandria Monogynia. N. 0. Rubiacea, Juss. 



Calyx integer. Corolla limbo 4-fido, fauce pilosA,. Stamina 4^ 

 brevia, fauci inserta. Stigma h'l^dum. J3acca disperma. 



Super arbores parasitica, basi tuberosayjloribus axillaribus, 



Hydnophytum formicarum. 



Nidus germinans formicarum nigrarum. Rumph, Amb, vi. 

 p. 119. t, 55. Jig. 1. Prio Hantu. Malay, On trees in the 

 forests of Sumatra. 



" This grows parasitic on trees in the form of a large irregular 

 tuber, fastening itself to them by fibrous roots, and throwing out 

 several branches above. The tuber is generally inhabited by 

 ants, and hollowed by them into numerous winding passages, 

 which frequently extend a good way along the branches also, 

 giving them the appearance of being fistular. Leaves opposite, 



