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Heuce, I reduce Muriea to an artificial section of Mimusops, of 

 which the revised character will run as follows : — 



Mimusops. — Calyx 2-seriata; sepalis exterioribus crassis valvatis, 

 interioribus imbricatis. Petala 6-8, sex^alis alterna a^ipendicibus 

 geminatis interdum laciniatis stipatis, imbricata subcontorta raris- 

 sime (nunquam ?) vere contorta. Androceum biseriatum, vel pseudo- 

 1-seriatum; staminibus alternipetalis fere semper sterilibus petal- 

 oideis, integri 2-fidis, v. laciniatis, limbo plerumque ante 

 utrumque fertilia collateralem expanso ; antheris (fertilium) 

 extrorsis (onlinis) gynfficeum ordinis, 6-8 loculare vel diplomerum. 



1. EuMiMUsops (inch Sijnarrhena). — Petalorum aj)peudices 



integri; stamina antisepala steriliapetaloidea; gynaeceum 

 isomerum, rarissime diplomerum [M. annectens). [Re- 

 gion, omn. calid.] 



2. Imbricaria. — Omnino Mbniisopis sed appendicibus j)etalorum 



laciniatis. Sj). ad. 6. [1 Antilles ; caet. Madagascar, et 

 Ins. Mascarens.] 



3. Labramia. — Petala Imbricaria ; gyn^ceum dixDlomerum. 



[Madagascar, et Ins. Mascarens.] 



4. Labramiopsis. — Fetala, E urn imusopis ; staminodia et gynfecium 



Labrami(E. Sp. 1. [Madagascar.] 



6. Muriea. — Flores omnino Eumimusopis sed stamina antisepala 

 fertiha. Sp. 2. [1 Antilles, 1 Natal.] 



The ChrysophyUecE, especially Lucuma, need a revision from the 

 same point of view, and this I trust to be able to make in a future 

 communication. I will only note that Cryptoyyne, Hook, f., is 

 exstipulate. Gerrard's specimens, which formed the type of the 

 genus, have indeed some of the leaves reduced ; and in one 

 they j)resent a most deceptive resemblance to stifjules ; but I 

 found in the Paris herbarium a beautiful specimen of Dup. Th., 

 unmistakably of the same species as Gerrard's, and unequivocally 

 exstipulate. This enabled me to see, on close examination, the 

 true character of the stipuloid organs in Gerrard's, which are 

 irregularly interspersed among ordinary foliage-leaves, and by no 

 means paired at the base. Another very good specimen turned up 

 in the SapotacecE iynotcE at the British Museum. This, too, has the 

 well-marked foliage of the Paris specimen, and is, perhaps, a 

 duplicate of it. 



I may here mention that a dissection of the very young buds 

 on a specimen of the '* Capucine " of the Seychelles prove it to be not 

 a Sidero.vylon, but a 3-merous Mimusops. As the petals were so 

 young as to be still exstipulate, I could not determine the section. 

 I name it, therefore, ]\[. Hornei, after its collector, Mr. Home, to 

 whom systematic botany owes so many prizes. Full descriptions 

 of the new species referred to in this paper will shortly be published 

 in the ' Journal.' 



A revision of the Ijassiea', must also be deferred, for it would 

 require a complete study of all the Bornean and Javan types, to be 

 acquired by a visit to Leyden and Florence. I feel very uncertain 

 what is meant by the floral symmetry of several of these sjDecies, 

 as described by their authors. Dichopsis eUiptica, B. H. [Bassia, 



