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tusiusculo acuminatis, et pauUulo attenuatis (juuioribus lan- 

 ceolatis), coriaceis, supra pallidis, venis valde reticulatis pro- 

 minulis, subtus stramineis, nervis venisque prominentibus, 

 margine cartilagineo, petiolo subtenui, canaliculato, rugoso ; 

 racemo gracilis extra-axillari, folio niagno multo longiori, 

 floribus 1-4 minusculis, in fasciculis subsessilibus aggregatis, 

 articulatis, calyce pilosulo, drupa ovali, breviter pedicellata. — 

 India Orientalis ad Travancore. — v. s. in herb. Hook. {Wight, 

 943, cum descript. cl. Doct. Klein). 



The branchlets are slender and somewhat scandent j the leaves 

 re of a pallid hue on both sides, but a little more yellow be- 

 ;ath ; they are of a very coriaceous substance, rather polished, 

 ^ith raised reticulations above, the margins somewhat revolute 

 id cartilaginous, with the nervures and reticulated veins very 

 rominent beneath ; they are 6 to 8^ inches long, 2f to 3f inches 

 _ road, on a short, deeply channelled petiole half an inch in length, 

 and transversely rugous as in Platea ; the raceme ai'ises from the 

 side of the stem opposite to that on which the petiole is inserted, 

 as in some species of Stemonurus; it is about 11 inches long, 

 very slender, and charged for nearly its whole length with 

 clusters of few flowers, in which the calyx is somewhat pilose, 

 |iut the petals are quite glabrous, and retain their yellow colour 

 drying ; they are about a line in length. The drupe is sup- 

 jrted by its calyx and corolla, both unchanged, withered, and 

 ?rsistent, upon the gynophorus, which is now elongated to a 

 ledicel of the length of 1^ line; it is 11 lines long, and 7 lines 

 road when dried; a single drupe alone remains in the specimen 

 jferred to. I)r."Klein in his manuscript note says, that several 

 jgregated lengthened racemes sometimes grow out of the leafless 

 ^odes of the old wood*. 



Sarcostigma Vogelii, n. sp. ; — sufiVutex glaberrimus, ramulis 

 teretibus, subrugosis; foliis majusculis, oblongis, utrinque 

 acuminatis, apice acute et breviter attenuatis, coriaceis, gla- 

 berrimis, supra pallidis, subtus flavescentibus, nervis venisque 

 reticulatis et transversis prominentibus, petiolo brevissimo, 

 canaliculato, rugoso ; racemo spicato, extra-axillari, longissimo, 

 gracili, floribus subaggregatis, articulatis, caducis ; drupa car- 

 nosa, rubra, pendula. — Guinea ad Cap. Palmas. — v. s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Vogel, 25,27 et68). 



This plant was collected in the Niger Expedition by Dr. Vogel, 

 who describes it as a shrub {strauch) : it bears very much the 

 habit and appearance of the former species, but the leaves are 



* A drawing of this plant, with details of the structure of its female 

 flowers, will be given in plate 18 of the ' Contributions to Botany,' &c. 



