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. MELODINUS monogynus. 
East Indian Melodinus. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. APOCINEE. 
MELODINUS, Forst. Cal. 5-partitus, persistens. Cor. tubulosa, 
limbo 5-partito obliquo, coronà ad faucem 5-fidà lacerà (cum limbi laciniis 
alternante ex Forst.). Stamina brevia. Stylus 1 (2-partibilis ex Forst.) ; 
stigmata 2, Bacca globosa, 2-locularis, intus pulposa et polysperma, dis- 
sepimento carnoso, seminibus compressis. Frutex scandens; folia opposita, 
integra. Juss. gen. 148. 
M. monogynus, foliis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis, paniculà glaberrimà. 
M. monogynus. Carey hort. beng. p. 20. 
Frutex scandens, undique glaberrimus, Folia opposita, ovali-lanceolata, 
glaberrima nervo nullo marginali, in petiolo brevi insidentia. Flores magni, 
albi, terminales, paniculati. Calyx campanulatus, patens ; ? 5, ova- 
tis, rotundatis, imbricatis, pilosis: interioribus majoribus. Corolla alba, 
carnosa, calyce multó longior, hypocrateriformis, glaberrima, tubi basi con- 
stricto intus villoso ; limbo 5-partito, patente, laciniis contortis, falcato-cul- 
tratis, transversim corrugatis, basi bicallosis ; fauce coronata squamis 5, car- ` 
nosis, erectis, bilobis, pilosis, laciniis corollæ oppositis. Stamina 5, versus 
basin tubi inserta, glaberrima; acuminata ; antheris circa stigma conniven- 
tibus. Ovarium inferum in disco insidens simplex, glabrum. Stylus filiformis. 
Stigma crassum, conicum, birostre. Glandule hypogyne nulle. 
This is one, among the multitude of noble plants de- 
scribed but not published by the late Dr. Roxburgh; the 
history of which has long been anxiously expected by Bota- 
nists. 
From the Hortus Bengalensis of Dr. Carey, in which 
work alone we find the species noticed, it is stated to be a 
climbing shrub, native of Sylhet, and flowering at Calcutta 
in March and April. In this country it produced its blos- 
soms, for the first time, in July last, at the Nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of Fulham; to the 
liberality of whom we are indebted for the opportunity of 
making our drawing. It is a stove plant, and propagated 
by cuttings. 
That this plant is referable to the genus Melodinus of For- 
ster, we think there can be no doubt, notwithstanding some 
differences in his account of his plant and the structure wt 
