58 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
T. Motleyi, Hook. /. 
Has. Borneo, Moéley. 
muli teretes, cortice atro tecti, ad nodos subincrassati, internodiis sub- 
—— pollicaribus. Folia regularia, subsequalia, crasse coriacea, siccitate 
atro- 2-3 poll. lata, utrinque levia, supra subenervia, subtus pallidiora, 
nervis preceipue ad costam hine inde foveolatis. Florum fasciculi numerosi, 
floribus = unc. longis, inconspicuis. 
sa oad singular plant indeed, and quite unlike any with which Lam 
sunt, cept Seyphophora, which it resembles in general habit, but 
from which it “differs widely i in structure. I find no trace of a style, but two 
small recurved stigmas rise from the centre of the disk. The ovary is extremely 
small, and owing to this and to the coriaceous texture and black colour of its 
walls, its interior structure is very difficult to detect. I find (as does Pro- 
fessor Oliver) constantly 2 cells, and 2 collateral ovules, attached to the centre 
of the septum in each cell. ese two ovules are neither erect nor pendu- 
lous, but spread horizontally to the right and left respectively of their com- 
mon —_ of attachment. In Scyphophora the two ovules rise similarly from 
the same point, whence one ascends and the other descends, and the thickened 
placenta forms a septum to the cell between the ovules; I find no —— 
of the placentas, nor constriction of the cells in this skint, —J.D. ER. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. shen laid open. 3. Stamens, 4. Ovary, calyx, disk, and ge 
5. Vertical, and 6, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
Piate 1073. 
GOMPHRENA PEARCEI, Oliv. 
AMARANTACER. 
Gomphrena Pearcei, O/iv sp.—Herbula diffusa, glabra, cauli- 
rg fot karen umbellatis peenerk #2 ramulis ex eodem ‘nodo sepius 
varicatis, capitulis numerosis breviter pedunculatis $-12-floris, bracteis 
=U leg ‘Nerbaseia glabris floribus brevioribus, bracteolis obovato-ro- 
tundatis tenuiter tho-membranaceis, perianthii foliolis anguste obliquis basi 
mineo adnat 
Has ogota, 10 its ft., March, 1804, R. Pearce. (This locality I do 
not find i in Mage ndes. Per ethaps Bogota may be mea 
Radix verticalis, parce ramosa. Caules ex eadem radice plures, 2-3 po oll. 
longi, carnosuli, glabri. Folia opposita ; radicalia evanescentia, caulina ovalia 
¥. lineari-spathulata, obtusa, glabra, crassiuscula, plana, }—3 poll. longa. ores 
hermaphroditi, sessiles, in capitula numerosa terminalia pedunculata congesti, 
bracteis exterioribus quasi involucrati. Bractee herbaceze, crassiuscule, 0 a 
vate, glabra, siccitate reticulato-venosw, integre v. emarginate, floribus paulo 
breviores ; bracteole opposite, albo-membranacex, obovato-rotundate, flores 
excedentes. Perianthum 5-phyllum, foliolis tenuissime membranaceis lineari- 
