1840.] Linnean Society. 87 



3-locnlare. Ovula in quoqiie loculo duo, ab apice placentje hinc ovario 

 adnatte collateraliter affixa, pendula, in loculo superposita, placenta al- 

 tera elongata. Stylus excentricus. Semen pendulum. Injlorescentia 

 cymosa, axillaris v. terminalis. 



To the first tribe Mr. Bentham refers Heisteria, L., Ximenia, L., 

 Ohix, L. (including Spermaxyrum, LabilL, and Fissilia, Comm.),* and 

 Schcepjia, L. ; to the second, Opilia, Roxb. (including Groutia, Guill.), 

 and Cansjera, Lam. ; and to the third, Gomphandra, Wall., Icacina, 

 A. Juss., Apodytes, Leretia and Pogopetalum. 



He considers Schcepfia to be far removed from Loranthacete by the 

 structure of its ovary, while it differs from Symplocos in the aestiva- 

 tion of its corolla and the incomplete division of its ovary, — two 

 points in which it agrees remarkably with Olax and Ximenia. He 

 describes the greater part of its ovary as well as the margin of its 

 calyx as free, and states that an adherence almost as complete exists 

 in some species of Olax. The gamopetalous corolla he regards as a 

 character of little consequence in orders where the aestivation is val- 

 vate, and as existing to a considerable degree in Olax itself. In 

 Schapfia the stamens are more closely adherent to the corolla, but 

 the filaments are filiform and prominent from the base of the latter, 

 and are not confounded with its substance. 



He states Cansjera to differ from Thymelea, to which it is usually 

 referred, in the nature of the floral envelopes, in the position of the 

 stamens, and in the structure of the ovary and of the fruit ; and adds, 

 that in all these points it agrees with Opilia, from which it differs 

 onh" in the adherence of its petals. 



The genera Apodytes, Leretia and Pogopetalum are characterized 



as follows : 



APODYTES. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx parvus, immutatus. Petala 4, 5. Stamina 

 totidem, iis alterna, sterilia nulla. Ovarium 1-loculare. Fructns ovato- 

 reniformis, subcompressus, hinc appendice carnosa auctus. Infiores- 

 centia terminalis. 



LERETIA. 



Flores hermaphroditi, v. abortu masculi. Calyx parvus, immutatus. Pe- 

 tala 0, intus villosa. Stamina totidem, iis alterna, sterilia nulla. Ova- 

 rium 1-loculare. Fructus(ex icone Fl. Flum.) depresso-globosus. InJlo~ 

 rescentia axillaris, laxa. 



POGOPETALUM. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx parvus (fructifer parum auctus ?). Pelala 

 4, 5, intus villosa. Stamina totidem, iis alterna, sterilia nulla. Ova- 

 rium 3-loculare. Fructus depresso-globosus ? Injlorescentia axillaris, 

 densa. 



