02 ICONES PLAKTAKUM. 



menta 3, brevia, filiformia, columnam terminantia. Ovarium in Qove $^ 

 globosum, dense Tillosissimum, 3-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis. Styli 

 breves, plani, recurvo-patentes, 2-fidi. Capstda pericarpio cra&siuscule 

 crustaceo in eoccos 2- valves dissiliens. Semina subglobosa, laavia, testa 



crassiuscule membranacea. 



membranam 



nosTilam embryonem inclndentem reductum. Cotyledones l^tissimiej 

 carnosulce, varie contortnplicatoe, radicula sursnm flexa. 



Plate 1279.— Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Female flower. 3. Embryo. 4. Section of 



the same with the stirrounding albumen. .. -r. , .„ • ' 4009 



The fruit of this curious genus w^as unknown until BurchdVs specimens, n. 48^^ 



and 5213 were received at Kew, which show its close affinity to the Brazilian and 



Guiana genus Dl^cocarpus. , -r^ -, ■ j i. ^i 



Mueller s name Lachnostylis hirfa, taken from the Prodromus, was inadvertently 



inscribed on the plate, without perceiving that Turczaninow's Lachiostylis cafensis 



had the rio'ht of priority as being the oldest correct name. Mueller changed it under 



the modern very objectional practice of detaching the adjective of an old incorrect 



name to combine it with the substantive of a more recent but correct name, and thus 



frame a third new one which cannot record the old one without explanation, and only 



adds a perfectly useless synonym. In the present case there was not even the excuse 



that Turczaninow ought to have recognised his plant in a Linne-an Cluytia.—G, Brnthaw. 



Plate 1280. 



CHORIOPHYLLUM MALAY ATTUM, Bejith 



EuPiiOBBiACEJE, Tribe Phyllaxthe^. 



Choriophyllum, Benth. gen. nov, Flores dioici, apetali. Discus 0- 

 Fl. <y : Sepala 4, ra^i^s 5-6, membra nacea, lata, valde imbricata- 

 Stamina 4, circa receptacTiIam v. ovarii rudimentum conlcnm affixa, 

 sepalis opposita, filamentis liberis exsertls. Antlierce dorsifixae, loculis 

 extrorsum contio-ais parallelis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Fl. $ : 

 Sepala 4, crassa, carnosa, lata, circa ovarium arctc imbricata. Ovarium 

 3-loculare; styli distincti, breves, erecti, apice brevissime patentes, 

 crassi, obtusi, indivisi. Ovula in loculis gemina. Capsula in cooco^ 

 bivalves a columella perfiistente dissiliens. Semina in loculis gemina 

 vel abortu solitaria, oblonga, testa Crustacea nitida. Albumen car- 

 nosum, Cotijhdunes -^l^Tidd, latas. Arbor glabra. jPoZ/a opposita, bre- 

 viter petiolata, integcrrima, coriacea, tenuiter peunivenia. Racemi ^ 

 ad axillaa v. ad nodos vetustos subterni, v. prope basin opposite ramosi, 

 folio breviores, floribus parvis secus rhuclun in cyraulas paucas laxas 

 dispositi. Flores $ in spicis sessilibus pauci, sessiles. 



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C. malayanum, Benth. specks unicn. 



