1846.] Linnean Society. 283 



Calcutta, with another unpublished plant from Sylhet, probably 



forming a second species of Dr. Wallich's Sarcostigma*. 



Lastly Mr. Griffith characterizes a new genus of Anacardiacece, 



under the name of 



Gen. SwiNTONiA, Griff, 



Sepala 5, basibus coalita, persistentia. Petula 5, hypogyna, sub fructu 

 demum ampHata. Stamitia totideni, toro cylindrico parum elevato 

 insidentia. Ovarium subrequilaterale, in apice toil staminiferi sessile. 

 Stylus fiHformis ; stigma peltato-capitatum. Fructus siccus, exstipi- 

 tatus, petabs ampliatis fobaceis suffuUus. — Arbor magna, resinosa, facie 

 qnodammodd Mangiferas. Foba lanceoluta, coriacea. Paniculae axil- 

 lares terminalesque; flores inconsincui. 



SwiNTONIA FLORIBUNDA. 



Hub. in colle aUo Insulse Madamacan Mergui proximse, Pator dicto, co- 

 piose ; florena Novembri et Decembri, fructifera Februario. 



This genus is dedicated to George Swinton, Esq., late Secretary 

 to the Bengal Government, who has always been ready to promote 

 the interests of science and the welfare of the Tenasserim Provinces, 

 and to whom Dr. Wallich had intended to dedicate his genus Mela- 

 norrhcea. In the structure of its fruit it is very nearly allied to Me- 

 lanorrhoea ; and in that of the flowers, particularly as regards the 

 mode of adhesion of the petals and stamina to the torus, it ap- 

 proaches to Syndesmls of the same author. 



February 17. 



E, Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Major Proby T. Cautley and Edward Kelaart, Esq., M.D., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. Ward exhibited specimens of the extreme states of Chondrus 

 crispus, Lyngb., gathered by him at Linmouth, N. Devon, growing 

 within a few feet of each other, but under different conditions ; the 

 broad variety being found in pools among the rocks, where it is 

 always submersed ; the narrow on the outer ledge of rocks, where it 



♦ Not Sarcostigma of Drs. Wight and Arnott in Edinburgh New Pbil. 

 Jonrn. vol. xiv. p. 299. — Secr. 



