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QUISQUALIS indica. 
Amboyna Quisqualis. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. THYMELEZ. Jussieu gen. 76. 
COMBRETACEE. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 648; 
et suprà fol. 429. 
QUISQUALIS. Cal. longissimus filiformis limbo 5-dentato. 
(petala) 5 oblonge. Stylus filiformis : stigma obtusum. Drupa 5-angularis 
lesperma. Folia opposita, flores spicati, terminales aut azillares, singuli 
bracteati, Jussieu l. c. 78. 
Q. indica, bracteis oblongis ventricosis: petalis oblongis villosissimis. Roz- 
burgh flor. ind. ined. 
Quisqualis indica. Zinn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.556. Willd: sp. pl. 2. 679, - La- 
marck illustr. t. 357. Smith in Reess cyclop. in loc. Sweet hort..sub. 
dond. 94. Curtis's magaz. 2033. 
Quisqualis pubescens. Burm. ind. 103. t. 35. 
uis qualis. Rumph. amboyn. 5. 71. t. 38. 
Frutex robustus scandens, ramis novellis villosissimis. Fol. subopposita, 
breviter petiolata, à lato-ovalibus ad oblongo-cordata, integra, villosa, acu- 
mine abrupto longiusculo. Stipule nulle. Spice terminales et axillares, 
villose. Flores plurimi, oppositi et alterni. Bractew solitaria, wniflore, 
rhomboidee, villosa, ciliate. Cal. tubo filiformi, proximé infra orificium 
villosum 5-fidum dilatescens, Petala quinque, oblongo-lanceolata, ore calycis 
inserta, villosissima. Filamenta ordine alters? duplo ori calycis. circumpo- 
sita: anthere oblonga, incumbentes. Germen i , seailocalare, = 
longum; ovula sepius 4, summo loculo annexa. Stylus wsque. A 
tubo calycis coadimatue, indè discretus atque in stigma majusculum Nieto 
trum perforatum. antheris equale abeuns. Roxb. in loc. cit. (ex ico 
versum). 
In the unpublished “ Flora Indica" two species of Quis- 
QUALIS are recorded by Dr. Roxburgh as cultivated in the 
Calcutta Garden; both of a pubescent habit. The one with 
narrow bractes has been named villosa by the Doctor, and 
is said to be native of Pegu; the other, tbe present species, 
with broad bractes, of Amboyna. —Loureiro's indica, of 
which we find a prototype specimen in the Banksian Herba- 
rium, is entirely smooth throughout, and we should think 
distinct from both the above. 
We transcribe the following account of the subject of 
this article from Dr. Roxburgh’s manuscript. 
