3 
Owing to the lamented death of M. Pierre the two species here 
described have not been hitherto published under their correct genus. 
Pierre had three species in manuscript under the generic name of 
Megabaria, M. Trillesii, M. obovatum and M. Klaineanum. 
The first of these was published by De Wildeman, igs ee 
without a description (Etud. Fl. Bas- et Moy.-Cong. vol. ii. p. 284). 
It has, how baa been described along with another iacina re Toxuds 
in the Kew 0, p.57. MM. Trillesit therefore will have to be re- 
garded as my type of the genus Megabaria. The two other species are 
not congeneric with M. Trillesii, but Pierre appears to have intended 
them to be the types of his new genus, for he had excellent detailed 
drawings distributed with these specimens, but not with those of M. 
Trillesi1. He seems to have at first regarded this last species as belong- 
ing to Thecacoris, for on Trilles’s label in the Kew Herbarium.there is 
written in Pierre’s handwriting ‘ Thecacoris ? Trillesii, Pierre.’ From 
Thecacoris, however, M. Trillesii is at once distinguished by its panicu- 
> en ome ie of co a bracts, and by the absence of petals in the male 
flowers.—J. HurcHtnson 
as. 1, male ates the middle nee beget the buds; 2, an expanded male 
wer ; 3 stamen ; 4, female flower with one sepal siteabed, showing the adnate 
tak 5, sepal aa adnate disk ; 6. ca aeetion ; 7, coccus of capsule. All enlarged 
except Nos. 6 and 7. 
