72 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
— stylus crassiusculus, stigmate elongato-fusiformi sulcato cubtortos 
vula numerosa, placentis padi “septo medio affixis inserta, non immer 
json parva, ovoidea, coriacea, lobis calycis erectis coronata, Sloctingc 
oligosperma. Semina penta a, ee compressa, testa crassa fibroso- 
rec haiee suleata, albumine ca embryo . —Fru glaberrimus, 
sempervirens, ramulis leretinsculis,. "Folia opposita, reviter celled: oblonga, 
acuta, coriacea. Stipule lata, cuspidate, persistentes. Flores 
in fasciculos supra-avillares glomerati, pareehini “abi. 3-bracteati ; bractee 
late ovate, acute, persistentes 
T. Melleri, Hook. f. sp. unica. 
Has. Madagascar, apparently a common bush, especially on sandy hills 
near the sea, Bojer, Meller (1862), Gerrard (1866). Flowering in July and 
Aug 
rutex 4—6-pedalis, ramulis divaricatis levibus. Folia firme coriacea, 3-7 
poll. longa, in petiolum angustata, abrupte acuminata, siccitate pallide 
fusca; costa nervisque supra subtusque gracilibus. Florum fasciculi ao 
supra axillas siti, oppositi, 6-8-flori; bractee rigide, late ovate, acute 
eaten dimidio breviores. Ca/ycis lobi ovario subiequilongi. Corolla coriacea, 
l.diam. Anthere }-exserte. Bacca immatura 3 poll. longa. Semina 
fo fere cavitatis bacce 
I advance this genus as new with some hesitation, because it may prove to 
be one of the several Madagascarian genera which are so imperfectly or incor- 
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Puate 1091. 
EMPOGONA KIRKII, Hook.f 
Rusiaceaz. 
kh. f. gen. nov.— Flores 8 hermaphroditi, cum pedicello non 
Empogona, HH: 
articulati. Calycis ties isieiahonk: lobi 5, parvi, saperiiti, persistentes ? 
i. tubus eylindricus, fauce densissime et louge barbata ; lobi 5, ovato- 
ceolati, reflexi, tubo equilongi, contorti. Stam a 5, ore corolle inserta ; 
a sessiles, reflexee, exserte, anguste linc laedscitane, dorso basi 2-lobo 
inserte, connectivo dorso i 
merassato in laciniam anguste spathulatam elongatam 
