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we are to take the contradictory opinions of the most emi- 

 nent living Botanists regarding its affinities, belongs to Olaci- 

 nece, a small but curious order. On those opinions it is not 

 my present intention to offer any remarks, my object being 

 simply to make known a new species of one of the most re- 

 cently established genera of the order. 



Before, however, proceeding with the description of the new 

 species, I may mention that the plant figured in my Icones, 

 No. 955, under the name of Stemonurus ? fcetidus, appears 

 more correctly referable to the genus Icacina than Stemonu- 

 rus, and it seems not improbable, that both Stemonurus and 

 Gomphandra, might be reduced, and their species referred to 

 Icacina, the oldest genus of the three. There certainly ap- 

 pears no sufficient difference between Stemonurus and Gom- 

 phandra, and Mr. Bentham (1. c. p. 674), hints that the 

 latter is not sufficiently distinct from Icacina. Mr. Bentham, 

 for what reason is not stated, does not include Stemonurus 

 in his enumeration of the genera of the order, though placed 

 next Gomphandra in Endlicher's e Genera Plantarum* and 

 referred here, though doubtfully, by Blume, its founder. 



Apadytes benthamiana, (R. W.) arboreous, ramuli 

 terete, glabrous : leaves alternate, exstipulate, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous, oblong-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, from three and a 

 half to four inches long, including the petiole, by one-half 

 broad. Panicles terminal, erect, rigid, shorter than the leaves. 

 Bractse most minute or altogether obsolete. Flowers white, 

 about three lines long. Calyx small, glabrous, 5-toothed. Petals 

 oblong elliptic, inflexed at the point, glabrous. Stamens about 

 the length of the petals : anthers linear obtuse, introrse, long- 

 er than the filaments, attached by the middle of the bark. 

 Ovary free, hairy, ovate 1 -celled with two lateral superposed, 

 pendulous ovules : style slightly lateral, nearly straight ; 

 stigma truncated. Drupe semi-ovate, reniform, crowned with 

 the persistent base of the style, and furnished with a lateral 



