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diiiiidio longiores. Spicae fructiferae 15 20 era. longae. Capsular 

 basi lata affixae, circiter 8 mm. longae, receptaoulo persiatente denst 

 etellato-pubescente, semi inclusae ; epicarpium dense strigosura. 



China : Ilupeh, Hsingshan and Fang ; A, llenry^ 6559 ; high hiJIs, 

 Fang, E. II. Wilson, 2021. 



The investigation of this interesting new genus has 



We have now sufficient material of both of the genera 



involved the 



examination of several allied genera, more especially Distylium S. et Z. 

 and Sycopsts, D. Oliv., including a number of unpublished species, and 

 the results are so important as to call for further illustration and 

 description, 



named to admit of the completion of their definitions ; this will be 

 done in the next part of the ' Icones Plantarum/ It is certain that 

 the flowers of Distylinm are not polygamous, and that the male 

 flowers of Sycopsis are more highly organised than was supposed. 

 The genus SinowUsonia is named in compliment to Mr, E. H, Wilson, 

 whose excellent collections have thrown light on many doubtful points 

 conected with Chinese plants, — W. Botting Hemsley. 



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Fig. 1, a flower attached to the axis ; 2, a stellate hair from the outside of the 

 r«ceptaole; 3, a sepal ; 4, a staminode ; />, a longitudinal section of the receptacle; 

 B, a hair from the inside of the receptacle; 7, portion of a spike of ripe capsules ; 

 8 and 9, seed; 10, section of the seed, showing the embryo ; 11, eeetion of seed and 

 embryo through the cotyledons. All except 7 a7id 8 enlarged. 



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