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ments, of very variable lengthy dilated at the summit to a stigmati- 

 ferous head more or less lobed. The fruit is a slightly fleshy drupe, 

 with one or two seeds the fleshy embryo of which is destitute 

 of albumen. Some dozen 2 species of Phaleria are described ; the 

 flowers are arranged in short, often umbelliform, spikes, terminal or 

 axillary, surrounded by imbricate bracts forming an involucre. 3 



Instead of being elongated, as in the flower of Phaleria and 

 of Gyrinops, the receptacle of Aquilaria may become short, cupuli- 

 form ; so that the perigyny there becomes much less distinct. This 

 occurs in Gonistylus, a tree from the Indian Archipelago, which has 

 alternate leaves, five sepals, ten stamens, some thirty scales in their 

 intervals, four or five cells in the ovary and a large bacciform fruit. 

 By the form of its receptacle, it is intermediate between the pre- 

 ceding genera and Octolcpis, a genus from tropical and western 

 Africa, whose leaves are alternate, and its tetramerous and diplo- 

 stemonous flowers have a receptacle almost flat, with an insertion, 

 consequently, scarcely perigynous, and an ovary almost entirely 

 superior, with four uniovulate cells. 



II. THYMEL^A SERIES. 



We commence the study of this series, not by Thymelcca, from 

 which it has derived its name, nor by Daphne, the best known 

 representative in our country, but by the most complete types, such 

 as those presented in their flowers by Linostoma 4 (fig. 72, 73). It 

 may be said of these that, but for their unicarpellar gynsecium, 

 they would be altogether inseparable from Jquilaria. 5 They have 



1 •■ Genitalibus, more quarumd. Ritbiac. etc. vii. 1 (Brymispermum). — Hook. p. Bot. Mag. t. 

 dimorphis." (A. Guay, Seem. Jotirn. of Bot. 5787. — Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 37. 



iii. 305.) 3 The genus Skaphium (Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



2 Forst. Prodr. 33, 192 (Bais). — Wikstr. Bat. Suppl. i. 142), very imperfectly known, 

 Thymd. 349 (Bais). — Gaudich. Voy. Uran. appears tolerably analogous to Phaleria by 

 Bot. 443, t. 44 (Bais). — Bl. Bijdr. 651 its fruit, but it differs, apparently, in its mode 

 (Bais). — Dcne. Ann. Mus. iii. 41 (Bais); of inflorescence. Its flower must be analysed. 

 Aim. So. Nat. sér. 2, xix. 38, t. 1 A (Bry- * Wall. Cat. n. 4203.— Endl. Gen. n. 2102 ; 

 mispermum) ; Voy. Venus, Bot. 13, t. 10- Suppl. iv. p. ii. 67, n. 2106 4 . — Meissn. Bcnk- 

 12 (Brymispermum) ; 17 (Leucosmia). — Zoll. scl/r. Bot. Ges. Reyensb. iii. 293, t. 7; Prodr. 

 Verz. ii. 117 (Brymispermum). — A. Gray, loc. 599, 700. — Ncctandra Roxk. Fl. Ind. (ed. 1832), 

 cit. 305 (Leucosmia). — Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 251 ii. 425 (not Beko. nor Rottb.). — Eulinostoma 

 (Brymispermum). — Miq. Fl. Ind-Bat. i. p. i. Meissn. Mart. Fl. Bras. Thymcl. 71. 



883 (Psendais), 884 (Brymispermum) ; Suppl. i. 6 And Phaleria may have, as we have seen, 



142 (Brymispermum). — Seem. Fl. Vit. 207 a unilocular ovary. 

 (Brymispermum).—'!!'. Muell. Fragm. v. 26; 



