58 ICONES PLANTARUM. 



ad bipedalia, 3-5 poll, lata, sicca dura, basi in petiolum J—l^-polli. 

 earem angustata. Calyx ^ poll. longus, lobis erectis. GoroUce tubu3 

 calyce flequiloTigus, gluber; lobi patentes, ovati, obtusi, dorso tomen- 

 telli. Stamina petalis breviora; antberse filamentis subaequilongse. 

 Stijhis calyce longior. Fructus^ integer a nobis non visns- 



This noble tree is noticed in Baker's ' Flora of Mauritius and the 

 Seychelles* as probably a sixth species of the genus Sideroxyhn (p. 

 194), of which leaves were sent by Mr, Home, but flowers were want- 

 ing. It was subsequently alluded to by Mr. Hartog in a paper en- 

 titled * Notes on Sapotacese/ published in the ' London Journal of 

 Botany ' as a doubtful Mimiisops, Nothing further was known of it till 

 the return of Miss North from the expedition she made to the 

 Seychelles for the purpose of adding views of its principal trees, &c., 

 to the unique gallery of portraits of plants in their homes, with which 

 she has so munificently endowed the establishment at Kew, when, 

 amongst other treasures, she brought with her a painting of the foliage 

 and fruit of the Capucin, and made arrangements for flowers being sent 

 home when these should appear. These, which she kindly transmitted 

 to^ Kew, have enabled me to determine that the Capucin is neither a 

 Sideroxyhn nor a 2Itmuso;ps, but very near to the large genus Chry- 

 snphyllum, from which it differs in the biseriate lobes of the calyx; 

 and I have hence the satisfaction of dedicating the new genus to the 

 accomphshed lady to whom the public are so deeply indebted. J. D, 



Hooker. 



Fig. 1. Diagmm of flower. 2. Hair from leaf. 3. Two inner and one outer lobe 

 of calyi. 4. Back view of three corolla-lobes. 5. Corolla laid open 6 and 7. 

 Stamens. 8. Ovary and pedicel. 9. Transverse section of ovary 10 Seed All 

 hutfg. 10 mlarijed. 



Plate 1474. 



IPOM^A SHIEEWSIS, Oliv 



CoXVOLVULACEiE. 



I. 



snirensis 0?.i,. {sp nov.)- frutex scandens, ramulis puberalls 

 tomentelhsve, foliis cordiformibus obtusis obtusinscnlis mucronatis 



supTa 



tomentosis, flonbus :n panicuhs folio longioribus multifloris axiUaribus 

 dispositif, sepahs sericeo-toinentosis ellipticis obtusia accrescentibus 

 persLsteiitibusque, corolla Iilacma mfundibulari calyce duplo longiore, 

 calyce fructifero caps alum monospermam dense tomentosam dobosam 



2-3-plo superante. 



