270 Prof. Gibelli on the Reproductive 
subimbricata. Petala 4, cuneato-obovata, sepalis 4-plo vel 
dimidio breviora, is opposita, carnosula, glaberrima. Stamen 
unicum, centrale; jfi/amentum subbreve, erectum; anthera 
4—8-locellata, locellis circa connectivum peltatum in annulum 
connexis, rimis totidem horizontalibus bivalvatim dehiscentibus 
et seepe minime interruptis suturam continuam simulantibus. 
—FKam. Sepala 4, spathulato-oblonga, glabra. Petula 2, 
spathulato-oblonga, dimidio minora, glabra. Stamina nulla. 
Ovarium unicum, valde gibbosum, 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum. 
Stylus nullus. Stigmata 2-4, subsessilia, recurvatim divari- 
cata. Drupa carnosa, gibba; putamen Cissampelidis et illo 
Stephanie diversum, condylo imperforato notatum. 
Frutices scandentes, in India, in Japonia, in insulis Asiaticis et 
Sandvicensibus crescentes ; folia peltata, oblonga vel sub- 
orbicularia, subcordata, apice sepius acuta, petiolata, glabra 
vel pubescentia; inflorescentia in utroque sexu axillaris ; 
pedunculus sepius solitarius, simpliciter vel iterum umbellatus ; 
flores numerosi, minuti, puberuli, crebre capitato-aggregati, 
plerumque e pedicellis confluentibus in discum carnosum con- 
glutinati. 
The following species are described in the third volume of my 
‘Contributions to Botany ’— 
. Clypea acuminatissima, Bl.;—v.s. in hb. Hook. ¢ , Java(Lobb). 
: oxyphylla, nob. ;—v. s. mm hb. variis, ¢, Nepal (Wall.). 
Forsteri, nob. ;—Cocculus Forsteri, DC. ;—yv. s. in hb. 
Mus. Brit., Tahiti (Solander); 9? (Forster, planta typica) ; 
id. (Banks and Solander); in hb. Hook. ¢, Tahiti et Ton- 
gataboo (Wilkes). 
consummata, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook. 9, Nagasaki 
(Oldham, 760). 
. —— subovata, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook. 2, Rino Ohosimo 
(Oldham, 346). 
s effusa, nob. ;—v. s. in hb. Hook. ¢, Kurg (Hook. & 
Ths). 
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XXVIII.—WNotule Lichenologice. No. IV. 
By the Rev. W. A. Letenton, B.A., F.LS. 
Some highly interesting and instructive discoveries respecting 
the organization of the fructitication of the Verrucarie have been 
made known by Dr. Giuseppe Gibelli, Professor of Natural His- 
tory in the Royal Lyceum of Pavia, in his valuable paper en- 
titled “Sugli Organi Reproduttori del Genere Verrucaria,” 
Milan, 1865, of which we propose to offer a summary. 
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