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culatis. (Genus Gynotrochi, Cassipourece, CaralUce, et Crossostyli 

 Forst. (certissime inter Legnotideas collocandse !) affine, sed tetra- 

 merum, polyandrum, petalis integerrimis.) 



Haplopetalon E.ICHII. — Feejee Islands. 



SICYOS, Linn., subgen. SICYOCARYA. 



Fructus ovato-pyramidatus vel oblongus, 4 - 6-angulatus (rarissime 

 triqueter), inermis, pi. m. rostratus ; pericarpio incrassato. Antherae 

 2-5, sinuosse, basi connatse ; connective angusto. 



1. SiCYOS PACHYCARPUs, Hook. Sf Am. — Sandwich Islands. 



2. SicYOS MACROPHYLLus (sp. nov.) : foliis magnis cordato-rotundis 

 3 - 5-lobatis argute denticulatis subtus puberulis ; paniculis masculis 

 umbellato-compositis longe pedunculatis ; pedicellis filiformibus ; fructu 

 ovate 5 - 6-angulato glabrate restrato. — Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. 



3. SiCYOS cucuMERiNUS (sp. Hov.): glaber ; foliis late cordatis in- 

 tegris denticulatis; paniculis masculis breviter pedunculatis ssepe tri- 

 fidis racemosis ; fructu oblongo 5 - 6-angulato glaberrimo. — Var. /3. 

 foliis triangulato-cordatis promisse acuminatis. — Var. y. foliis pedati- 

 lobis. — Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. 



SICYOS, subgen. SICYOPSIS. 



Fructus ebovatus, turgidus, inermis, hirsutus, infra apicem ebtusis- 

 simum dentibus calycinis subulatis deflexis ceronatus ; pericarpio 

 baccate. Columna staminum apice trifida. Antherae 3 liberse, vel 

 5 triadelphse ; connective dilatato plane utrinque emarginato. 



SicYos MONTANUS, PoBpp. & Endl. — Peru. 



Three bundred and eighty-fourtb meeting. 



October 11, 1853. — Adjourned Quarterly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The report of a committee on social meetings of the Acade- 

 my was taken from the table, and, after some remarks of 

 Messrs. Emerson, Gould, Gray, and the President, adopted. 

 A committee, consisting of Messrs. C. Jackson, Jr., Dr. Cabot, 

 and Dr. H. I. Bowditch, was appointed to make the neces- 

 sary arrangements. 



