398 Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinaceae. 



8-jugis, subtus demissu fulvo-tomentosis, rachi versus basin 

 valde prominentia petiolo crasso, canaliculato, tomentoso ; 

 panicula terminali, tomentosa, multiflora, ramo ramulisque 

 crassis, pedicellis confertis, cum floribus articulatis ; drupa 

 sanguinea pilosa, majuscula, pulposa, putamine rugoso, nigro. 

 — Neilgherries ; v. s. in herb. Champion. 



This is also a very distinct species : the leaves are much 

 channelled at both extremities, and the midrib is very prominent 

 towards the base, so that the continuous thick petiole stands at 

 a considerable angle with the plane of the blade ; they are smooth 

 above, and below are thickly covered with dense yellowish tomen- 

 tum ; they are 6 inches long, and 2|- broad, on a petiole 1 inch 

 in length ; the panicle is 4 inches long, its stem being 2 lines 

 thick. The specimen in Capt. Champion's herbarium is very 

 short, so that the lower leaves are probably much larger : the 

 berry is nearly an inch in length and f- inch in diameter. 



10. Mappia montana. Nothapodytes montana, Bl. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd. Bat. 248 ; — arbor ramosissima, ramis dichotomo-ramu- 

 losis, foliis sparsis, oblongis vel lanceolatis., utrinque angustatis, 

 integerrimis, subcoriaceis, glabris, supra lucidis, subtus reti- 

 culato-venosis, petiolatis ; paniculis corymbosis axillaribus vel 

 infra gemmarn terminalem ortis, cum alabastris pube sericea 

 obductis ; floribus parvis, brevissime pedicellatis, subcalyce 

 articulatis, ebracteatis. — Java. 



As the features offered by Prof. Blume in the work above cited, 

 of his genus Nothapodytes, quite correspond with those of Map- 

 pia, I feel no hesitation in considering these genera as identical ; 

 the characters of this species there given, being also analogous 

 to the plants above described, and the proximity of the countries 

 of their origin, all seem to confirm this conclusion. 



Desmostachys. 



I propose to establish this genus upon a plant of very peculiar 

 habit from Madagascar, which I have found in the herbaria of 

 Dr. Lindley and Sir William Hooker, remarkable for its several 

 slender spicated racemes, growing out of each axil, whence its 

 generic name, and which I adopt upon a manuscript suggestion 

 of Dr. Planchon. It resembles Mappia in the structure of its 

 flowers, but the floral parts are far more delicate and membra- 

 naceous in texture, and retain their yellowish colour in drying ; 

 the stamens and style are marked with numerous pellucid dots, 

 and the anther-cells are thin and membranaceous ; the ovarium 

 is covered with very long setose hairs and is seated on a distinctly 

 5-lobed disk. 



