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Mtemecodia iJMBEKBis (^Grciy in Expl. Exped. ined.) : inermis ; 

 foliis lauceolato- seu spathulato-oblongis ; corolla tubulosa intus nuda 

 glaberrima calyce cum ovario quadruple longiore ; stylo simplicissimo ; 

 stigmate quadri-apiculato indusio lanato-ciliato cincto ; fructu (in sicco) 

 obpyramidato quadrilobo, pyrenis 4 corneis. — Feejee Islands. — Para- 

 sitic, or pseudo-parasitic, on trees, in tbe manner of its allies, by a 

 dilated tuberous base, cavernous within. Corolla thickish, half an inch 

 in length, tubular, 4-cleft, perfectly glabrous and naked within and with- 

 out, and destitute of scales, beard, or other appendages in the throat. 



There is no small obscurity about the one or two old species of this 

 genus, and respecting the distinction between it and Hydnopkytum, 

 which the Dutch botanists ought to clear up. But the present species 

 — notwithstanding that the corolla wants the beard described by Jack, 

 and the fornicate scales mentioned by Blume — is undoubtedly a genu- 

 ine member of Jack's genus Myrmecodia ; and its stigma is probably 

 similar to the " stigma simplex tomentosum " of M. tuherosa. But this 

 stigma in our plant consists of four minute apiculate lobes, terminating 

 a filiform entire style, and surrounded by a kind of indusiate mar- 

 gin which is fringed by a circle of delicate arachnoid hairs. — From 

 the analyses I should refer Gaudichaud's M. inermis and M. echi- 

 nata to Hydnophytum. 



Hydnophttum longiflorum {Gray, I.e.): foliis elongato-oblon- 

 gis ; corolla gracillima (semipollicari) intus glabra, tubo lobis oblongis 

 pluries longiore ; stigmatibus 2 petaloideis renifoz*mibus ; drupa dipy- 

 rena. — Feejee Islands. 



The one or two dubious Coffeas of Chamisso, from the Sandwich 

 Islands, are not particularly related to Coffea (which, although 

 strangely left in the PsycJiotriece by Miquel, contrary to the assigned 

 characters, had already been well defined by Bentham as having " the 

 asstivation and placentation of Ixora and Pavetta, with an axillary in- 

 florescence and a pecuUar seed"), but are near to Ghasalia, from which 

 they are distinguished by the short corolla and the scarcely meniscoidal 

 seed. Nuttall has indicated these plants, in the Hookerian herbarium, 

 as a new genus, Apionema; but his name must give place to De Can- 

 dolle's long-published sectional name of 



STRAUSSIA. 



Caljrx tubo turbinate ; limbo cupuliformi truncato vel repando brevi. 

 CoroUa brevis, 4 - 5-fidi ; lobis tubo iiequilongis seu longioribus aistiva- 



