80 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
there breves, apice inflexee, membrana parva terminate. Pollinia in 
quoque loculo pane obovoidea ascendentia. Stigma vertice de- 
pressum, Fructus ignot 
Mr. Dalzell referred plant to Heter singe as differing from 
that genus in no respec ct e a as to the form of the corolla. That, 
however, whether the three genera might not be united, if a further 
general consolidation of Asclepiadeous | genera be thought desirable.— 
G. BentHam. 
Fig. 1. Corolla. tegiu The een from above. 4. Pollen- 
masses, 6. Ovatied ‘nightly satan ities the fall of ‘the stigma, 
Prate 1192. 
LYSIDICE RHODOSTEGIA, Honce. 
Leouminos#, § C#SALPINIEZ. ; 
a Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1867, p. 299, species 
un 
Has. Southern China, on the West River, 7’. Sampson (No. 12155, 
Herb. Hance). 
Frutex glaber. hese alterns, abrupte poles Sots 3-4(-6)-jugis 
cacti coriaceis breviter petiolulatis oblongo-ellipticis breviter acu- 
minati si seeaBute: inferiora 24-44, pete -6 poll. longa 
Stipule parve subulate. ores racemosi, racemis in paniculis ter- 
minalibus 4-1 ped. longis dispositi; pedicelli peor basi bracteis 
coloratis equilongis ovato-ellipticis suffulti. Calyx basi 2 2-bracteolatus, 
bracteole parve oblonge v. lanceolate; tubo cylindrico sursum am- 
pliato, limbo 4-partito laciniis imbricatis sub anthesi reflexis oblongo- 
ellipticis pe ime. lobo postico latiore. Petala 3, westivatione convolu- 
tiva (1 posticum, 2 lateralia), subeequilonga longe unguiculata lamina 
er pent petala 2 antica rudimentaria minutissima. Stamina 
antherifera 2 lateralia, filamentis elongatis glabris, antheris ae oe 
dorsifixis ; stamina 2 postica filiformia antheris cassis, antica ru 
mentaria subulata inequalia, Ovariwm breviter stipitatum a 
pilosulum 9—12-ovulatum ; stylus laxus in alabastro circinatus ; s va 
terminale. a nen oblanceolato-oblongum planum apice apicu 
tam, 6-7 poll. longum 14 poll. m, valvis coriaceo-lignosis evibae. 
Semina compressa, radicula recta. 
