674 Mr. BENTHA M's Account of two new Genera allied to Olacineæ. 
wanting. The anthers are always introrse, fixed by the back, bilocular, the 
cells nearly parallel and opening longitudinally; they are usually versatile, 
but adnate in Gomphandra. 
Thick matted hairs are present in the flowers of many species; along the 
middle nerve of the petals on the inside in Ximenia, Leretia and Pogopetalum ; 
immediately above the part where the stamens cohere to the petals in most 
species of Olax and in Schepfia fragrans; at the top of the filaments in some 
Gomphandre. 
The pistillum is simple and sessile on the torus, which is sometimes thick 
and of a glandular texture, but never encircling the ovary or projecting in the 
form of distinct glands. The style is simple, terminating either in a thin, 
truncate, apparently entire stigmatic surface, or in a two-, three- or four-lobed, 
thick, fleshy stigma. 
The ovary is thick and fleshy, containing one, or (in Pogopetalum) three 
small cavities, in which are one, two, three or four ovules suspended from the 
apex of a placenta which arises from the base of the cavity, and is entirely 
free, or more or less connate with spurious incomplete dissepiments, or with 
the side of the ovary next to the style, which is in the latter cases excentrical. 
In Ximenia, Heisteria, Olax and Schepfia the placenta is nearly central, bears 
three or four ovules, and is more or less connected with as many spurious 
dissepiments, which are exceedingly short in the Australian and some East 
Indian species of Olax, but reach nearly to the insertion of the ovules in 
other species of Olax, in Ximenia, and in Schæpfia. In Opilia and Cansjera 
the placenta is almost entirely free, and has the appearance of an erect ovule, 
but under a strong glass it is seen to bear a single minute ovule suspended from 
the apex; in the young bud, it has appeared to me that there are two ovules 
in Opilia, three or four in Cansjera, a circumstance rendered probable by the 
evidently compound nature of the stigma in both genera, but which, on ac- 
count of the excessive minuteness of the parts, I am unable to ascertain with 
certainty from dried specimens. After fecundation I never find traces of more 
than one ovule. 
In Icacina, (Gomphandra d,) Apodytes and Leretia there are always two ovules 
collaterally suspended, or nearly so, but (in Apodytes, at least), owing to the 
lengthened thread by which one of them hangs, they are placed above one 
