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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
ai'ticulatis, calyce pilosulo, drupa ovali, breviter pedicellata. — 
India Orientalis ad Travancore. — v. s. in herb. Hook. {Wight, 
943, cum descript, cl. Doct. Klein). 
The branchlets are slender and somewhat scandent ; the leaves 
are of a palhd hue on both sides, but a little more yellow be- 
neath ; they are of a very coriaceous substance, rather polished, 
with raised reticulations above, the margins somewhat revolute 
and cartilaginous, with the nervures and reticulated veins very 
prominent beneath ; they are 6 to 8i inches long, 2| to 3f inches 
broad, on a short, deeply channelled petiole half an inch in length, 
and transversely rugous as in Platea ; the raceme arises from the 
side of the stem opposite to that on which the petiole is inserted, 
as in some species of Stemonurus] it is about 11 inches long, 
very slender, and charged for nearly its whole length with 
clusters of few flowers, in which the calyx is somewhat pilose, 
but the petals are quite glabrous, and retain theii- yellow colour 
in drying ; they are about a line in length. The drupe is sup- 
ported by its calyx and corolla, both unchanged, withered, and 
persistent, upon the g 3 mophorus, which is now elongated to a 
pedicel of the length of 1^ line; it is 11 hnes long, and 7 lines 
broad when dried ; a single drupe alone remains in the specimen 
referred to. Dr. Klein in his manuscript note says, that several 
aggregated lengthened racemes sometimes grow out of the leafless 
nodes of the old wood*. 
2. Sarcostigma Vogelii, n. sp. ; — suffrutex glaherrimus, ramuhs 
teretibus, subrugosis; folds majusculis, oblongis, utrinque 
acuminatis, apice acute et breviter attenuatis, coriaceis, gla- 
berrimis, supra pallidis, subtus flavescentibus, nervis venisque 
reticulatis et transversis prominentibus, petiolo brevissimo, 
canaliculate, rugoso ; racemo spicato, extra-axillari, longissimo, 
gracili, floribus subaggregatis, articulatis, caducis ; di’upa car- 
nosa, rubra, pendula. — Guinea ad Cap. Palmas. — v. s. in herb. 
Hook. (Vogel, 25, 27 et 68). 
This plant was coflected in the Niger Expedition by Dr. Vogel, 
who describes it as a shrub {strauch) : it bears very much the 
habit and appearance of the former species, but the leaves are 
not quite so thick in texture ; they are smooth, somewhat undu- 
lating on the margins, 7 to 10 inches long, and 3 to 3i inches 
broad, on a very short, channelled and rugous petiole, about 3 
lines in length ; the raceme is distantly extra-axillaiy, and in- 
serted on the opposite side of the stem, as in the foi-mer species ; 
it is 12 or 13 inches long, very slender, slightly pubescent and 
* A drawing of this plant, with details of the structure of its female 
flowers, will be given in plate 18. 
