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Beech., p, 64, t. 13), constitute a marked section of the genus {PJiyl- 

 leilema), on account of a pair of bracteant leaves forming a diphyllous 

 involucre to a cluster of three or more sessile flowers. 



IxoRA ERiANTHA ( Gray, ill Exijl. Exped. ined.) : stipulis aristato- 

 subulatis ; foliis ovalibus ovatisque obtuse subacuminatis subsessilibus 

 basi rotundatis vel subcordatis ramisque glabris ; cyma parva terminali 

 floribusque subsessilibus ; corolla extus cum calyce pubescente, lobis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acutis tubo suo gracillimo triplo brevioribus. — Brazil, 

 near Rio Janeiro. — Aff. I. Bahiensi et I. ScJiomhirghicmce, Benth. 



IxoRA (Phylleilema) Samoensis ( Gray, I. c.) : glaberrima ; foliis 

 ovalibus utrinque obtusis vel obtusiusculis, floraUbus etiam petiolatis 

 ovatis capitulum triflorum fulcrantibus ; dentibus calycis subulatis ; co- 

 rolla glabra ; stipulis longissime aristato-subulatis. — Upolu, Samoan 

 Islands. 



Ixora (Phylleilema) Vitiensis ( Gray, I. c.) : glaberrima ; foliis 

 ovato-oblongis acuminatis basi rotundatis, floralibus seu bracteis late 

 cordatis arete sessilibus capitulum triflorum fulcrantibus ; dentibus caly- 

 cis brevissimis ; corolla glabra ; stipulis longissime aristatis. — Ovolau, 

 Feejee Islands. 



Ixora (Phylleilema) abiplifolia ( Gray, I. c.) : foliis elongato- 

 oblongis subacuminatis basi obtusissimis subcordatisve glabris, floralibus 

 bracteisve ovalibus arete sessilibus capitulum pluriflorum fulcrantibus ; 

 dentibus calycis brevissimis ; corolla cum ovario extus pubera ; stipulis 

 breviter subulato-aristatis. — Samoan Islands. 



4. Morindece. 



Through some oversight, Bentham, in the Niger Flora, mentions 

 the MorindecB as belonging to his subtribe Vangueriece. Miquel, in 

 his recent Flora of the Dutch East Indies, adopting this view with- 

 out examination, introduces the phi'ase " ovulis pendulis " into the 

 characters of his tribe Morindece and of the genus Morinda, and alters 

 that of Tribrachya, Korthals, in conformity with that view. Yet he 

 (rightly enough) reduces Sphcerophora of Blume to Morinda, although 

 Blume's analyses represent anatropous erect ovules. An examination 

 of the flowers of some Morinda, so obviously demanded by this patent 

 discrepancy, would have shown the micropyle of the ovule, and in 

 fruit the I'adicle, to be inferior. In some species, as in M. citrlfolia, 

 the ovule is fixed by near its middle ; in others, nearer the micro- 

 pyle, — in some so close to it that the ovule is truly anatropous and 



