season, from March to June. With us it grows very slowly, 
plunged in the bark-bed of a stove, and has not yet been 
propagated. 
Those fine Asiatic fruits, the Litchi, Longan, and Ram- 
butan, are other species of this genus. 7 
The bark of the ripe wood is green, of the young wood 
cinnamon-colour. Leaves alternate, on short stalks, obovate- 
lanceolate, very smooth, auricled at the base. Flowers 
in panicled racemes, white, with a dash of pink. Calyx 
white, 5-leaved, the sepals being unequal, imbricated, 
ciliated, the innermost largest, and hooded. Petals 5, 
ovate, reflexed, inserted on the outside of a cyathiform 
discus, with a squamiform appendage above their base in 
the inside. 3. Stamens 8, inserted inside the disk, mona- 
delphous at base. The rudiment of the ovarium filiform, 
shorter than the stamens. 2. Ovarium double, with two 
styles, surrounded at the base, inside the discus, by 8 glands, 
fleshy, with solitary horizontal ovules. Stigma small, 
ovate, ciliated. | 
EXPLANATION OF THE DISSECTIONS. 
4 
1. A flower seen from above. 2. The calyx seen from above, the petals 
having been removed. 3. A front view of a petal. 4. A side view of half 
a petal. 5. The ovarium. 6. A section of one lobe of ditto. 7. The stigma. 
All more or less magnified. ' 
J. L, 
