ICONES PLANTARUM. 75 
Frutex videtur, an erectus an volubilis e specimine unico hand patet, 
pube tenuissima ad ramum costamque foliorum conspersus, ceeterum 
glaber. Folia opposita, subsessilia, lineari-lanceolata, acute acuminata, 
integerrima, basi rotundata, a poll. longa, supra leviuscula, subtus 
— costa prominula, yenis transversis reticulatisque crebris tenul- 
rvi, in cymulas densas: in una axilla  eenerees con- 
corolla parum breviores, imberbes, acute, apice supra stigma conni- 
ventes coherentesque. Pollen granulosum, corpusculis superne ob- 
eo concavis age one oe applicitum. ti sce Macite, 
uticum, medio leviter umbonatum. Pedicelli frtiotifert parum ac- 
creti, ad 2 lin. longi. olliculi subteretes, leves, acuminati, 14-polli- 
cares. Semina oblonga, compressa, apice angustiora, coma tenui haud 
longa coronata. 
This plant is known only from the small but very complete speci- 
men gathered by the late Rev. C. New on his expedition up the Kili- 
da 
tinguish the Javanese and Sumatran genera Phyllanthera and Pen- 
tanura.—G. BENTHAM. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Gynostegium. 3, Corpuscle. 
Piate 1187. 
ECTADIOPSIS NIGRITANA, Benth. 
Ascuertapes, Tribe PERIPLOCE2. 
“oat Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. ii, 741. 
nigritana, Benth., sp. nov., foliis anguste lanceolatis, cymis laxius- 
Bea multifloris. 
Has. West tropical Africa, Nupe on the Niger River, Barter. 
Caules (e basi lignosa ? ) herbacei, ere a ti, 4-pedales, is virgatis 
ramis 
lata, acutiuscula, 
glabris. Folia opposita, subsessilia, als lanceo 
imtegerrima, bias cone a 2-3-pollicaria, supra levia, subtus pallida, 
