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resembles Mappia and Stemonurus. Dr. Vogel collected another 
species, now first described, at Cape Palmas, on the Guinea coast 
of Africa; in its general appearance, the size and shape of its 
leaves, and in its singularly long, slender, spicated inflorescence, 
it bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Klein’s plant and to that 
from Java, and although all the flowers have fallen ofi* at the 
articulations with the pedicels, the identity of the genus cannot 
be mistaken. The following generic character has been derived, 
partly from my own observations as far as the specimen I have 
seen has afforded evidence, partly from Dr. Klein’s original notes, 
and I have since added other features from Mr. Brown’s de- 
scription : — 
Sarcostigma, W. & A. — Flores polygami. Calyx minimus, 
breviter cupulatus, obtuse 5-dentatus, persistens. Petala 5, 
lineari-oblonga, glabra, imo disci stipitati adnata, sestivatione 
valvata, sub anthesi patentim reflexa, marcescentia et persis- 
tentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iis alterna et sequi- 
longa, in flor. fern, sterilia et subbreviora ; filamenta linearia, 
compressa, in sterilibus apice antheris fere obsoletis 2-loba, 
(in fertilibus antherce ovales, versatdes, loculis parallelis, ap- 
proximatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, sec. cel. R. Br.). 
Ovarium in flor. masc. parvum, sterile, pubescens, in flor. fern, 
cylindricum ventricosum pubescens, disco seu gynophoro brevi 
tereti stipitatum, 1-loculare; ovula 2 ex apice loculi subcolla- 
teraliter superposita, podospermio carnosa suspensa : {stylus 
brevis crassus et stigma capitatum sec. Klein :) in ovario ado- 
lescente, stylus nullus, nisi id quod videmus in discum sessdem 
stigmoideum umbracuhformem margine crenatum centra ca- 
vum demum mutatum, et stigma verum ceutrale proinde obso- 
letum. Brupa oblonga, compressa, monopyrena; putamen 
mgosum ; csetera ignota. — Frutices Asia meridionalis, Java, et 
Africa tropica, subscandentes -, folia majuscuta, alterna, oblonga, 
coriacea, glaberrima, breviter petiolata ; racemi longissimi, gra- 
ciles, simpliciter spicati e fasciculis l-4-_^oris alternis) flores 
minusculi, sicce jiavi, cum pedicellis fere obsoletis articulati, et 
cito caduci. 
1. Sarcostigma Kleinii, W. & A. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xiv. 
299 ; — subscandens, glaberrima, laxe ramosa, ramulis tere- 
tibus ; foliis oblongis, basi rotundatis vel subacutis, apice ob- 
tusiusculo acuminatis, et paullulo attenuatis (junioribus lan- 
ceolatis), coriaceis, supra pallidis, venis valde reticulatis pro- 
minulis, subtus stramineis, nervis venisque prominentibus, 
margine cartilagineo, petiolo subtenui, canaliculato, rugoso ; 
racemo gracili, extra-axillari, folio magno multo longiori, 
floribus 1-4 minuscuhs, in fasciculis subsessilibus aggregatis. 
