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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY, 
seutation of this plant, and the specimen in Sir Wm. Hooker’s 
herbarium agrees very well with it, except that the leaves are 
generally more rounded at the summit, and deeply emarginated ; 
but it agrees in all its other characters. The leaves are 3|- inches 
long, inches broad, on a petiole scarcely 2 lines in length ; the 
internodes are 1 inch distant, and the raceme is 2 inches in 
length, on the elongated termination of the branch. 
2. Icacina Mauritiana, n. sp. ; — arbor 7-orgyalis, ramulis glabris 
fohis oblongis, utrinque acutis, apice acuminatis, glaberrimis, 
subtus ferrugineis, marginerevolutis,petiolo subtenui; panicula 
terminal! folio longiore, pluriflora, ferrugineo-pubescente, flo- 
ribus albis, odoratissimis. — Mauritius; v.s. in herb. Hook. 
This is a tree 40 feet in height, growung near “Colville Bridge”; 
its leaves are 2~ inches long, inch broad, on a somewhat slen- 
der petiole half an inch in length ; its terminal panicles are about 
2 inches long. It appears to me referable here, rather than to 
Apodytes, because of the induplicated apex of its filaments, and 
the form of its anthers, which are shorter, more ovate, and less 
bifid than in that genus. 
3. Icacina grandifolia ■, — foliis cuneato-oblongis, apice obtusis, 
infra medium attenuatis, utrinque glaberrimis, concoloribus, 
multinerviis, margine undulatis, petiolo brevi crasso canali- 
culato; panicula terminali laxe ramosa, ramis longe nudiusculis, 
apice floriferis, multiflora, folio longiore. — Madagascar ; v. s. in 
herb. Hook. (Lyall). 
This is a very distinct species, remarkable for the large size of 
its leaves, which are 6 inches long, 2^ inches broad, on a petiole 
only ^ of an inch in length ; the terminal panicle is 8 inches 
long, with its virgate branchlets 4 to 5 inches in length, which 
are ramified towards their extremity and bear numerous small 
pubescent flowers*. 
Apodytes. 
The characters of this genus, suggested by Dr. Meyer, were 
first published by Dr. Arnott in ‘Hooker’s Journal of Botany,’ 
and nearly about the same time by Mr. Bentham, in a memou’ 
given in the 18th vol. of the ‘ Linnsean Transactions.’ The prin- 
cipal feature by which it is distinguishable from Icacina, is the 
subsequent growth of its ovarium into a form so extremely 
gibbous, that the style appears as if it were produced upon one 
side, where it is inflected downwards, and at maturity this is 
* A drawing of this species with generic details will he given in plate 4 
of this work. 
