28 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
PraTe 1129. 
PSILANTHUS MANNII, Hook, f. 
RupiaceE&, Tribe IxorEz. 
Psilanthus, Hook. in Benth. and Hook f. Gen. Pl. ii. 115. 
HaB. Fernando Po; on the beach, G. Mann (1860). 
viridia, costa tenui, nervis paucis arcuatis, nervulis remotis ; petiolo 1-4 poll. 
longo. Stipule parve, intrapetiolares, triangulares, acute. Flores majus- 
d 
linea uic 
lare ; stylus filiformis, ramis 2 brevibus linearibus obtusis; ovula in loculis 
solitaria, septo medio late adnata, amphitropa. Fructus obovoideus, vertice 
late umbonatus, lobis calycis subfoliaceis coronatus, endocarpio tenuiter crus- 
taceo. Semina oblonga, umbilico ventrali. 
developed into green coriaceus lanceolate lobes half an inc g. 
The fruit contains no seed, but I have little doubt that the plant is 
correctly referred to the tribe Ivoree ; from the solitary ovules, broadly adnate 
to about the middle of the septum, with themicropyle (Ithink certainly) down- 
wards. As a genus is it evidently clearly allied both in habit and characters 
the fruit, which is crustaceous and 2-celled, not drupaceous with 2 
nes. 
I do not, however, place much dependence on this last point, for st fully 
formed, being seedless, the fruits of Psilanthus may be abnormally developed. 
Fig. 1. Ovary, calyx, bracts and style; 2 and 3. Stamens: . : a. 
all magnified. — y ens; 4, Vertical section of ovary : 
