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Calycosia Milnei (sp. nov.) : glaberrima ; foHIs oblongis siiblan- 

 ceolatisve basi attenuatis longiuscule petiolatis punctulatis (3 - 4-pollic.) ; 

 cyma diffusa repetito-trichotoraa ; pedicellis gracilibus. — " Anuteum 

 [Feejee Islands ?], Nov. 1853, a slender shrub, frequent on high 

 grounds," 3Ir. Milne. 



8. ScypMophora. 



Epitliinia of Jack has been identified by Korthals with the little- 

 known ScypMophora of the younger Gasrtner. Jack's description ap- 

 pears to be perfectly correct, so far as it goes (except as to the absence 

 of stipules). But — as respects the various subsequent attempts to 

 complete the generic character — it may be noted that the upper ovule 

 is not pendulous from the apex of the cell, as stated by Wight and 

 Arnott ; nor are the ovules solitary in each cell, as stated by Hasskarl ; 

 nor is the upper ovule prematurely abortive, as Miquel describes it. 

 The two long and narrow cells of the ovary each contain a pair of 

 anatropous ovules, borne on slender funiculi, which are inserted on the 

 dissepiment at the middle of the cell ; the upper one is erect, the lower 

 one pendulous. The funiculi are more or less thickened at their apex, 

 so as to cap the base of the ovule, as in the Guettardece generally. 

 Not rarely all four ovules are fertilized. In the fruit each cell becomes 

 constricted between the seeds into two imperfect locelli, one above the 

 other. The seeds are conformed to the cavity, and are somewhat curved. 

 In those examined, which were not perfectly mature, the albumen was 

 almost wanting ; the cotyledons oblong, flattish, and longer than the 

 radicle. The putamen does not readily separate into two pyrence. 

 The corolla is contorted in sestivation, and sometimes pentamerous. 

 The genus should perhaps be appended to the GuettardecB. 



9. Bihhia. 



Bihlda grandijlora, Reinw., or B. australis, DC, or more properly 

 B. tetrandra (Portlandia tetrandra of Forster), was collected at the 

 Friendly Islands, in fine specimens, by Professor Harvey. The corolla 

 is valvate in aestivation, as in Portlandia, but strongly reduplicate, so 

 that the summit of the flower-bud is cruciately four-angled or winged. 

 Stigma bilamellar ; the lobes short, oblong, and thickish. Ovules 

 oblono;, horizontal. Testa of the immature seeds conformed to the 

 nucleus. 



