S88 On some Plants, mostly undescribed, 



and bracteas. Although it presents differences, especially 

 in habit, from Excaecaria, I have considered it best to 

 refer it to that genus than to endeavour to define it as a 

 distinct one. 



The situation of the stamina with regard to the parts of 

 the perianth is not satisfactorily determinable. The flower 

 may be considered as solitary, 1-bracteate, 3-sepalous, with 

 S stamina alternating, or as monandrous, each with a bracte. 

 And this appears to me the more correct opinion from the 

 want of isochronism in the development of the stamina, the 

 anticous one being most praecocious, as well as from the 

 situation of the 4th stamen, which when developed has always 

 appeared to me opposite the posticous sepal or 4th bracte. 

 In Excaecaria Agallocha, the male flowers would appear as 

 monandrous as in this, an assumption founded on the want 

 of isochronism in their development. 



It presents no beauty. It does not often ripen seed, the 

 males and females having been planted apart from each 

 other. 



GIVOTIA. (Gen, Nov.) 



Fam. Nat, Euphorbiacece. 



Fl: fcem, — Calyx 5-sepalus, imbricatus. Petala 5, convo- 

 luta, partibus superpositis in corollam gamopetalam subur- 

 ceolatam cohserentia. Stamina O. Annulus hypogynus 5- 

 lobus. Ovarium bi-tri-loculare, loculis uniovulatis. Styli 2-S, 

 profunde bi-partiti, intus stigmatosi. Fnictus drupaceus, mo- 

 nospermus. 



Arbor mediocris facie Rottlerm. Folia alterna, sublobata^ 

 subtus pube stellata alba, petiolis biglandulosis. Flores 

 fceminei terminales, cymoso-paniculati. Fructus albido4o- 

 mentosi, cerasi magnitudine. 



Descr, — Arbor mediocris, partes novellae et calyx extus 

 dense ferruginei pilis stellatis. Folia alterna, bistipulata, 

 stipulis parvis subulatis, interdum obsoletis. Petioli longi, 



