M^eoearpus.] xxviii. TiLiACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 409 



B. Jackianub, Wall. Oat. 2679, not found in Wallioh's Herbarium. It is said to be a 

 native of Sinoapore, Jack. 



E. LONGiFOLius, Wall. Oat. 6682, from Ava, is indeterminable. It has very long, 

 strap-shaped leaves, pilose along the nerves. 



E. MONOCEEOiDEa, Wight. III. i. p. 84. " Leaves glabrous elliptic. Racemes lax, few- 

 flowered. Stamens indefinite, glabrous. Anthers pointed, beardless, shorter than the 

 style." 



MoKOCERA FERKUGiNEA, Joch Mdl. Misc. Bx Booh. Bot. Misc. ii, 86. " Leaves 

 oblong-ovate, acuminatej.entire, under surface as also the peduncles and branchlets fer- 

 ruginous villous, racemes axillary shorter than the leaves. — Leaves 6-7 in., entire, with 

 revolute margins; petiole 2-2 ^ in., downy. Drupe olive-shaped; nut, rather smooth, 

 l-seeded by abortion. Seed oblong, pointed, albumen oonforin, embryo inverse, coty- 

 ledons flat, radicle superior and much shorter than the eatyledoris."— -Jack states that 

 he did not see the flowers. 



Note on Koydsia. ' , 



At p. 180, it is stated that Moydsia paririfiora, Griff, is a Tiliaceous plant ; this is 

 an error. It. parmflora forms with B. fioribunda, Phmoh. Mss. (Cuming, Philippine 

 Island collection, n. 541), a subgenus of Boydsia, or a uewgenus closely allied to'it, 

 of which the fruit is unknown. Tbese plants differ from Boydsia suaveolens and B. 

 ohtmifolia in the linear-oblong buds, strap-shaped perianth-segments, whiolj are imbrir 

 cate in two series, in the anthers being entire at the base,^in the long stipes of the 

 ovary, subulate style with 3 minute terminal stigmas, arid in the few ovules in each 

 cell. I would suggest the nime of Alytostylis for this genus or subgeiius, in allusion to 

 the undivided style. The Philippine Island B. florS)und'a,- Planch. Mss., has flowers 

 nearly an inch in diameter, very many stamens, a very slender gynophore, which elon- 

 gates after flowering, and oblong leaves, 7-9 inches long. 



' There can be no doubt but that Boydsia should, as GrifSth observes, formthe type of 

 a Natural Order intermediate hetween Sixinece and. Capparidece. Both JJoyrfsia iand 

 Alytostylis difler remarkably in habit from TUiacece. 



3. Roydsia (Alytostylis) parviflora, Grif. Notul. iv. 578; Ic. 

 Plant. Asiat. t. 607, f. I; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate,: 

 perianth-segments ligulate obtuse. 



BiEMA, in woods near the Serpentine Mines at Hookum, Griffith. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves 4-7 by 1 1-2 in., glabrous, rather membranous, pale yellow- 

 green, nerves almost horizontal ; petiole J-J in., slender. Bacemes Ishort, yevy pubes- 

 cent, axillary, and forming small terminal panicles, raohis slender ; pedicels ^shorter than 

 the buds; bracts subulate, caducous. Flowers \ in. diam., inodorous, cfensely tomentose; 

 buds oblong. Perianth divided nearly to the base into 6, biseriate, imbVioate, obtuse, 

 Btrap-shaped, densely pubescent segments, that are finally recurved, riot miicK shortei' 

 than the stamens. Gynophore short in flower, slender. Stamens about 20,_ not miioh 

 exceeding the perianth-segments; anthers not 2-fid at the base. Owor2/ovoid,_ densely 

 pubescent, contracted into a stipes as long as itself, 3-celled ; Style subulate, stignias 3, 

 minute ; ovules about 4 in each cell. ' ' 



flowering specimens of B. oUusifoUq., H. f & T. (see p. 180), have, been recently 

 received from Kurz, collected in Pegu. The flower-buds are very small, globose, 

 tomentose. Sepals 6, short, obtuse, apparently valvate, pubescent: ' Stamens about 18, 

 exceeding the perianth. Ovary glabroils, on a tomentose gynophore ; styles 3, subulate, 

 united at the ha.se.-r- J. D. Sooher. 



Order XXIX. lANEIE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, simple, entire, rarely crenate- 

 serrate ; stipules lateral or intrapetiolar or 0. Inflorescence various. Flowers 

 regular, bisexual. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or connate below, imbricate. 



