PLANTjE JAVANICiE RAUIORES. 651 



Ploribus paulo post anthesin solum visis, et tunc etiamque 

 fructu maturo perianthio unico tantum persistent! nee 

 aucto nee indurato. Drupa exsucca, rugosa, raagnitudine 

 pisi majoris. Semen unicum maturescens ; albumen car- 

 nosum, album, magnitudine seminis ; Embryo respectu 

 pericarpii inversus; Ootyledonibus subrotundis, planis, 

 foliaceis ; Radicula recta, brevissima, supera. 



Obs. I. Botanists are not agreed as to the light in m 

 which the two floral envelopes of Sarcostigma and lodes are 

 to be viewed. Both Klein, in describing the plant from 

 which Sarcostigma was formed, and Blurae, in his character 

 of lodes, have termed the outer envelope calyx and the 

 inner corolla ; while Drs. Wight and Arnott, by whom the 

 genus Sarcostigma was established, have considered the 

 outer envelope an involucrum and the inner calyx. In sup- 

 port of this opinion the persistence and even induration of 

 the inner envelope in Sarcostigma would no doubt be 

 adduced ; but they were also, it may be supposed, deter- 

 mined by referring their genus to Hernandiacece, there 

 being in Hernandia an undoubted involucrum, but that 

 involucrum containing several flowers. On the other hand, 

 the alternation of division of the two envelopes, and their 

 close approximation in both these genera, are characters of 

 at least equal importance ; to which may be added the 

 many analogous points of structure between these genera 

 and Cardiopteris, in which it will hardly be disputed that 

 both calyx and corolla are present. 



Obs. II. As to the affinities of Sarcostigma and lodes, 

 the former genus was referred by Wight and Arnott to Her- 

 nandiacece, a family proposed by Blume in his 'Bijdragen,' 

 p. 550, and adopted by Endlicher, o.Qwsi'&ikwgoi Hernandia 

 and Inocarpus, two genera which do not appear to me very 

 nearly related to each other, and from both of which Sar- 

 costigma is readily distinguished by many important cha- 

 racters. In the following year Professor Arnott, in de- 

 scribing Nansiatum of Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, proposed 

 to place it next in affinity to Phgtocrene of Wallich {Gyno- 



