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scattered hairs. Seed solitary, flattened, the abortive seed very small, 
both pendulous. 
The genus Gonocaryum was first published by Miquel in his FI. 
Ned. Ind. Suppl. p. 343, to receive the single species G. gracile. The 
generic description is incomplete as regards the structure of the seed, 
but the specimens with which the author worked have no seeds. 
I have had an opportunity of carefully examining these specimens and 
I find that Miquel’s description is, as regards the structive of the ovary 
which is found in the staminferous flowers, inaccurate. He describes 
two styles and stigmas, whereas, I can find only one of each. And to 
this extent, I have modified as above the generic description. I think 
it highly probable however, that fertile ovaries occur (as in so many 
members of this family) in distinct flowers, and that these may possibly 
have two stigmas like Pteleocarjoa and Cardiopteris. Of such flowers 
however, there is no trace in the scanty materials on which Miquel found¬ 
ed the genqs. There are two fruits however on one of the type speci¬ 
mens, and a transverse section of these shows a vertical cavity in the sub¬ 
stance of the thick mesocarp on one side which has all the appearance 
of an aborted loculus. The single perfect seed which has filled the loculus, 
is too much decomposed for examination. In their Genera Plantarum , 
Messrs. Bentham and Hooker remark (in a note), that they have seen 
no specimen of Gonocaryum Miq. And without admitting it as a genus 
of Olacinese, they quote Miquel’s genera description. The late Mr. 
S. Kurz, in a note in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1870, Pt. 2, p. 72, pro¬ 
pounded the view that Phlebocalymna Griff. MSS., as described by Messrs. 
Bentham and Hooker (Genera Plantarum I, 353) is identical with 
Gonocaryum. Kurz, who had examined the specimens on which Miquel 
founded Gonocaryum , also believed Miquel to be wrong about the cells 
of the ovary; for he states that “ the ovary is really one-celled and, to 
judge from the sterile fruits, 2-ovuled.” The abortive seed in the fruit 
which Kurz examined was, he continues “suspended from the apex just 
beneath the acumen, and there can be observed also the rudiment of the 
second superposed ovule.” But Kurz entirely overlooked the cylindrical 
cavity of the abortive loculus. JDr. Scheffer in (Ann. Jard. Bot. Bui- 
tenzorg I, 96), published a note on the genera Gonocaryum and Phlebo¬ 
calymna , of neither of which had be seen (as he states) good or authen¬ 
tic specimens. In that paper Dr. Scheffer follows Kurz in reducing 
Phlebocalymna to Gonocaryum. Scheffer gives also a definition of Gono¬ 
caryum which differs a good deal from Miquel’s. And he describes two 
new species of this modified Gonocaryum (viz., G. Teysmannianum and 
G. joyrifonne). I have examined the latter, and I do not find it to be a 
Gonocaryum at all, as Miquel defined the genus. Beccari (Malesia I, 
