Mr. J. Miers un some genera of the Icacinacete. 395 



The figure of Jacquin gives a very faithful representation of 

 this plant, as well as good details of the structure of the flower. 

 The fleshy immersed gland, about the size of a millet seed, seen 

 near the axil of each nerve, offers a very characteristic mark of 

 this species; its leaves are 4 inches long, \\ inch broad, upon a 

 petiole of 6 or 8 lines : the panicle is 2^ inches long. The whole 

 plant, as in some other species of this genus, becomes black in 

 drying. 



2. Mappia affinis, n. sp. ; — ramulis lenticellis elongatis, verru- 

 cosis, albidis maculatis; foliis lanceolatis, basi minus acutis, 

 glaberrimis, nitidis, penninerviis, nervis eglandulosis, petiolo 

 breviori, canaliculato ; paniculis glabris, axillaribus, folio multo 

 brevioribus, multifloris, fioribus parvulis, odore suaveolente, 

 calyce subpubeseente, petalis extus glabris, intus sericeo-pilosis. 

 — Manchester, Ins. Jamaica? ; v. s. in herb. Hook. (Purdie). 



This species is very similar to the foregoing one, but is di- 

 stinguished by the want of the peculiar nerval gland and by the 

 whole plant becoming less black in drying. Its leaves are 

 5 \ inches long, li inch broad, on a petiole half an inch in length : 

 the panicle is 1| to 2 inches long. 



§ 2. Trichocrater. Discus cupularis, 5-dentatus, extus 

 glaber et 10-costatus, intus pilis longis indutus. Species 

 Asiaticce. 



3. Mappia feetida. Stemonurus fostidus, Wight, Icon. tab. 955 ; 

 Spic. Xeilgh. tab. 23; — foliis ovato-ellipticis vel elliptico-ob- 

 longis, apice repente attenuatis, valde reticulato-venosis, utrin- 

 que parce pubescentibus, subtus glauco-pallidis nervis venis- 

 que prominentibus ; paniculis terminalibus cymosis breviter 

 pilosis; floribus subparvis,flavis,foetidis,saepeomnibus masculis; 

 calyce acute 5-dentato ; drupa olivaBformi, purpurea, putamine 

 tenui. — Neilgherries ; v. s. in herb. Hook, (f Fight). 



This is described as a large umbraceous tree, and I observe 

 the specimens do not become black in drying; the leaves are 

 generally 4 or 5, sometimes even 7 inches long, usually 2, rarelv 

 3 inches broad on a petiole £ inch in length : the panicle is from 

 2 to 3 inches long, much spreading, with numerous flowers ; the 

 buds are ovate, nearly 2 lines long, and the flowers, which exhale 

 a rank smell of carrion, are larger than most of the species of 

 this genus ; the calyx is deeply and acutely dentate ; the petals 

 are very pilose outside, covered with sericeous hairs inside, and 

 marked by a raised longitudinal nervure; the anthers are oblong, 

 with a mucronulate apex ; the ovarium and erect style are densely 

 covered with long pilose hairs, but the former is glabrous at its 



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