234 ON THE AFFINITY AND POSITION OF RYPARIA. 
were data of importance, and could not but lead to the yppenee: of 
the plant being a Pangiacea. Of this I soon _ sure, and ac 
i s genus Bergsmia showed so many cha OE in 
C. ere I 
in this Blume misunderstood 4s Hasselt altogether, for he sa: 
mentum centrale, crassum, apice antheras 4 v. 4 loaning gerens,” 
which is just as in Ryparia. 
Blume has a Ryparia cesia and a = dubia, and I fear that one of 
these — — nt Bergsmia Javani 
_ The female racemes are shaiisinbdth Ryparia casia and R. (Bergs- 
staminodes are subulate in .R. Javanica, while those of Ryparia cesta 
of which I do not possess the female) are said to be stipitate. The 
of the one is 1-celled, while that of 2. cesia is said to have 
sparingly co red with adpressed stiff hairs, while 2. Javanica has 
only the Leah bade similarly clothed, the leaves being quite glabrous. 
give a ives character. of Ryparia, connecting it with 
Bergsmia. ~ 
Ryparia, Bl. 
Flores dioici, racemosi. Calyx ix in abstr Bitar: = ay see de- 
cidua 3—4 rumpens. Petala 4—5, oblong s tomentella, 
oo intus smn totidem villosis instructa. at : Stamina 
olumn: 
4— 
atone 2- alas, oealok 9 vy. elliptice: Fem m staminodiis 
4—5 subulatis v. pedicellatis cum petals alternantibus cinctum, 1 iS 
2?) iooalare: placentis 1—3 pari 
sessilia, lata et emarginata vy. mehioibe ocrepiformia. Ercias ae BL) 
corticatus, ime cs subtomentosus punctatus, monospermus rarius 
bilocularis dispermus. Arbores v. arbuseule foliis heaeie longiuscule 
cot (petiolis apiee incrassato-geniculatis, subtus vulgo glance 
ons. 
Bergsmia? acuminata, Miq. l.c., has cylindrically oblong abe i oa 
is in my opinion an Anonacea, with which also the whole 
habit corresponds. 
