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shown that Botrpoceras laurinimi,W\\k\. is the same phmt; but 

 both Mr Harvey and Professor Bernhardi maintain that the 

 ovule is pendulous from the apex of the cell ; tliis may how- 

 ever be an oversight, and the origin of the funiculus which 

 supports the ovule overlooked. In some respects allied to 

 this genus, according to Bernhardi, \s Apodytes dunidiata E. 

 M., but certainly not of the same order. Tlie affinity of 

 Apodytes to Icacina Senegalensis (of which Chysobalanus 

 luteus, Sab. is a synonym,) is so obvious that I feel surprised 

 at Endlicher omitting it at the close of Olacine<^, where Ica- 

 cina is placed. I'he two principally differ by the origin of the 

 style, that organ being terminal in Icacina as in the Olacinece, 

 whereas it is lateral in Apodytes, indicating as it were, a soli- 

 tary simple pistillum. How far either of these belong to 

 OlacinecBy I will not take on me to say : neither can I do so if 

 Mr Brown's views of that order be strictly adhered to ; at 

 the same time they and the East Indian Gomphandra appear 

 more allied to Olacinece than to any other. 



Apodytes may be recognised by the following short cha 

 racter : — 



Apodytes E. M. 



Trimeria sp. ? Harv. mst. 



Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5, aestivatione valvata. Stamina 5, 

 petalis alternantia; filamenta versus basin latiuscula: antherae 

 introrsse, oblongse, lineares, basi bifida. Ovarium obliquum, 

 gibbum, 1-loculare. Ovula duo, collateralia appensa. Stylus 

 lateralis, flexuosus (sc. primo erectus, dein super ovarium ho- 

 I'izontaliter curvatus, demum erectus.) Stigma capitatum. 

 Fructus coriaceo-carnosus, epulposus. Semen unicum. — 

 Frutex foliis petiolatis, alternis, simplicibus, subellipticis, cori- 

 oceis, margini undulatis, lucidis. Paniculae ferminales, folia 

 paulo superantes. 



Found also by Zeyher (No. 673,) in the forests of Kraka- 

 kamma, in the district of Uitenhage.* 



* Since the above was written, I have received a letter from my friead 

 Mr Bentham, in which he mentions that he has prep;iretl a memoir on the 

 ^hcinecE, with a description and figure of this ijenus. 



