9S 
CONTEIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
rimis, coriaceis, supra lucidis, utx’inque pallidis et concolo- 
ribus, costa supra sulcatis, nervis utrinque prominulis, venis 
immersis, margine valde revolutis^ pagina inferiori minute 
cavo-punctatis, petiolo brevi, tereti, flavescenti, transverse ru- 
goso, superne paullo canaliculato ; racemo brevissimo, axillari, 
petiolo vix longiori, floribus subfasciculatis, sicce aurantiacis, 
hermaphroditisj calyce piloso, petalis linearibus, glabris ; ovario 
pilosOj ovubgero, disco annulari glabro insito. — Moulmein. — 
V. s. in herb. Hook, et Lindl. (Lobb, 385). 
The leaves in this species are 4| to 5| inches long, and If to 
2f inches broad, on a rather slender terete petiole about f inch 
in length : the flowers are hermaphrodite ; the lobes of the 
calyx are imbricated; the petals adhere by then margins in a 
tubular form, leaving the upper portions free and reflexed ; the 
filaments for half their length cohere to the petals, but are easily 
separated, they are narrow, linear and eompressed, nearly the 
length of the petals ; the pollen is globular and reticulated ; the 
style is hollow, terminated by three erect obtuse teeth ; the ova- 
rium is conical, hairy, seated on an annular glabrous disk ; it is 
1 -celled, with two ovules collaterally suspended from near the 
summit of the cell. 
6. Platea Wightiana. Gomphandra polymorpha, var. Wight, 
Icon. tab. 53; — folds oblongis, apice obtusiusculo repente 
attenuatis, glabris ; panicula axillari, divaricatim dichotomo- 
ramosa, folio 4-plo breviori, floribus aggregatis, staminibus 
exsertis, filamentis linearibus, apice latioribus. — Coonoor in 
Mont. Nielgherrensibus. 
This is the plant to which I alluded when speaking of Ste- 
monurus {ante, p. 88) : although figured as the male plant of 
Gomphandra polymorpha, it would seem to be hermaphrodite, for 
the ovarium, as shown in the section given in fig. 6, is repre- 
sented as ovuli^erous. 
7. Platea laxiflora, ohm Stemonurus laxiflorus, n. sp. ; — ramis 
flexuosis,*nodosis, ramulis teretibus, subglabris, rugoso-stri- 
atis ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acutiusculis, apice repente atte- 
nuatis, utrinque glabris et coneoloribus, venis subtus promi- 
nulis, petiolo subtenui canaliculato ; paniculis solitariis vel 
geminis, axillaribus, 3-chotomo-ramosis, et laxe divaricatis, 
peduncuhs pedicellisque gracilibus parce pubescentibus, calyce 
corollaque glabris. — Ins. Philip. — v. s. in herb. Hook, et Lindl. 
(Cuming, 891). 
The leaves are about 5f inches long and If inch broad, on a 
petiole 5 fines in length ; the panicles are about If inch long, 
