116 Mr. J. Miers on some genera of the Icacinacese. 



margin, and hollow in the centre. This process therefore, as in 

 Stemonurus, would seem to be a growth subsequent to the 

 period of impregnation : it will be remembered that a somewhat 

 analogous succeeding development on the summit of the ovarium 

 has been described in the case of Apodytes. In the rugous sur- 

 face of its putamen, as recorded in the manuscript of Dr. Klein, it 

 resembles Mappia and Stemonurus. Dr. Vogel collected another 

 species, now first described, at Cape Palmas, on the Guinea coast 

 of Africa ; in its general appearance, the size and shape of its 

 leaves, and in its singularly long, slender, spicated inflorescence, 

 it bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Klein's plant and to that 

 from Java, and although all the flowers have fallen ofi' at the 

 articulations with the pedicels, the identity of the genus cannot 

 be mistaken. The following generic chai'acter has been derived, 

 partly from my own observations as far as the specimen I have 

 seen has afibrded evidence, partly from Dr. Klein's original notes, 

 and I have since added other features from Mr. Brown's de- 

 scription : — 



Sarcostigma, W. & A. — Flores polygami. Calyx minimus, 

 breviter cupulatus, obtuse 5-dentatus, persistens. Petala 5, 

 lineari-oblonga, glabra, imo disci stipitati adnata, sestivatione 

 valvata, sub anthesi patentim reflexa, marcescentia et persis- 

 tentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iis alterna et sequi- 

 longa, in flor. fem. sterilia et subbreviora ; filamenta linearia, 

 compressa, in sterilibus apice antheris fere obsoletis 2-loba, 

 (in fertilibus antherce ovales, versatiles, loculis parallelis, ap- 

 proximatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, sec. eel. R. Br.). 

 Ovarium in flor. masc. parvum, sterile, pubescens, in flor. fem. 

 cylindricum ventricosum pubescens, disco seu gynophoro brevi 

 tereti stipitatum, 1-loculare; ovula 2 ex apice loculi subcolla- 

 teraliter superposita, podospermio carnosa suspensa: {stylus 

 brevis crassus et stigma capitatum sec. Klein) : in ovario ado- 

 lescente, stylus nullus, nisi id quod videmus in discum sessilem 

 stigmoideum umbraculiformem margine crenatum centro ca- 

 vum demum mutatum, et stigma verum centrale proinde obso- 

 letum. Drupa oblonga, compressa, monopyrena; put amen 

 rugosum ; csetera ignota. — Frutices Asi(B meridionalis, Javce, et 

 Africa tropica, subscandentes ; folia majuscula, alterna, oblonga, 

 coriacea, glaberrima, breviter petiolata ; racemi longissimi, gra- 

 ciles, simpliciter spicati e fasciculis l-4!-floris alternis ; flores 

 minusculi, sicce fiavi, cum pedicellis fere obsoletis articulati, et 

 cito caduci. 



1. Sarcostigma Kleinii, W. & A. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xiv. 



299 ; — subscandens, glaberrima, laxe ramosa, ramulis tei'e- 



• tibus ; foliis oblongis, basi rotundatis vel subacutis, apice ob- 



