od ae 
: some — in the Conspe f Homaliea, 
Rockers = 
chrge ese For these words ‘* nulla” ave be su’ 
+} Hist, des Maree 
ON PIERREA. 339 
ON PIERREA, A NEW GENUS OF SAMYDACEZ. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., Member Imp. Acad. Nat. Cur., ete. 
Catycts tubus brevis, hemisphericus; lobi 7-9, Movie eons 
acutiusculi, rigide membranacei, scariosi, Dipterocarporum instar tri 
nerves et reticulati, nervo medio supra prominulo, persistentes, sym- 
ptyxi imbricati. Petala 7-9, ee calycis fauci inserta, 
ejusque laciniis textu ac nervation milia, sed minora, 
mptyx1 
imbricata, cum glandulis totidem sul einabil ener rearing houc 
perigynum suleatum marginantibus alternata. Stamina perplurima, 
12-20 singulo petalo opposita, ejusque cost basi ac paulo altius 
inserta, filamentis liberis, subulatis, pilosis, floris centrum versus 
inflexis ; a qbenk parve, didym, dorsifixe, versatile, extrorsum (?) 
dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, hirsutum. nicim, verticaliter 4- 
lobum, 1-loculare ; styli 4-5, breves, tigihatcbis simplicibus ; ovula 
plura, obovoidea, juxta apicem loculi inserta, pendula. Fractus 
Arbuscula? Folia alterna, petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata, obsolete 
ics crenata. Stipule? Flores majusculi, in racemos axillares 
dis 
“a DICTYONEURA, sp. wnica.—Ramis subteretibus cortice glaberrimo 
ruguloso, foliis coriaceis Tacidulis supra glaberrimis subtus glandulis 
minutis albidis ope lentis tantum perspiciendis densissime consitis costa 
te utrinque icui 
venis primariis venularumque rete utring conspicuis et pro- 
minulis basi obtusis apice usiuscule acuminatis margine fere 
integro ad crenas obsoletas glanduloso 5-8 poll. longis 24 poll, latis 
perulata valida cinereo-tomentosa, floribus brevissime pedicellatis 
bracteis 3 flabellato-rotundatis unguictlatis membranaceis coloratis 
extus tomentellis 3 lin. longis et latis stipatis, calycis tubo hirsuto 
laciniis tomentosis 6 7 lin. longis 2 lin. latis, petalis 33-4 lin. longis 
1} lin. latis tomentosis 
In ins. k, sinus siamici, juxta oras Cambodie, legit amic. 
Lud. Pierre, horti Saigonens is director, cui letus eximium sane ac dis- 
tinctissimum genus 8 
The systematic ssoditiols § this fine genus is evidently amongst 
those few members of the tribe Homaliee ee ided with a free ovary, 
n 
= ae 
S 
gst the: 
Eiorcidel from Calantica, by its stamens being far more numerous 
than the se sepals and petals; from Bivinia,* combined with the pre- 
latter very firm in ees 
in m and 
**Genera Plantarum” (i, es oe " Petala tot.quot sepals” jar e weribod 
she 
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