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Neue Litteratur. 
ted in these pages, that the genua Sterculia, as defined by recent 
writers, needs disintegration agam.J , 
Mueller, Ferd., Baron Y<m, Record of a new Papuan Helicia. (1. c.) 
[Helicia Forbesiana. 
\ i-mrkof „lahrmia- leaves lanceolar-ovate or nearly lanceolar pro- 
, at the summit, decurrent into the usually very short petiole, 
tracted at tue summ , • their nerves ascendant and 
generally ^ ne ^ceLs elongaTed’, pedioels rlther long, free to 
beneath piomine , narrowed upwards; flowers comparatively 
near middle; anthers linear ; stigma 
elongated* 1 very thin; hypogynous scales annnlar-connate; frmt almost 
branctoand scantily on the> 
conspicuous; veinlets subtle. Kacemes on buü f » p e tals 
in length from p . f0U t he° terminal Portion much broader than the lower 
Whai streaked Hypogynons disk almost patellar, 
Tated Frait only^n in an immature state, then hardly half an 
inch 'long, and covered differences of the 
This species comes nearest ^ shorter 
latter plant —and’perhaps also color 
pedicels, more denticulate y} 0 j f r nit because from the 
All other known species show lessei affim y. Q ror techini has 
The indefatigable ]f^eHcla'from Perakf both'are nndescribed’; but 
sent me ko species of Helicia from rera ^ ^ fifth volume of g ir 
as they Ukely wdl come u ev e unattended 
Joseph Hooker s Flora ° f B r‘dlanceoiar4identire leaves shining 
to;—one has long petioies, and lancema g u br own-velvety 
above, soon glaucons 3 p ec ies has larg'e 
ontside and formmg “aves’ without denticulations, the 
thin lanceolar-ovate aJmost sessHe^leaves^W;^ ^ ^ leaves an(J gla _ 
racemes bemg remarkably s P P . longer than 
brons,. the pedicels a i m “ a ‘“^connate. Of neither species the 
the stigma and the hyp gy nrohably form trees of some size 
ripe frnit could be obtained; of the bark 0 f these 
.in that damp and hot T®?* 0 “’™ Drea ence or absence of denticulations 
ofThe 3 feaveTshonld no longer be used as a primary mark of distinction 
for the species in this genus.] 
Paläontologie: 
Hoffmann, H., Phänologische Beobachtungen. (Berichte der Deutschen 
botanischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. IV. 1886. p. 380.) 
Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten: 
A SgJ* «^th^^3|3*iS?ASSÄ^ Äi m P he 322- 
341 .) Philadelphia 1886 . 
