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them still near twice as long as in F.fragram, while the inflo- 

 rescence is that of Blume's first group. 



All the remaining species of this first group, as far as they are 

 known to me, have the tube of the corolla expanded from below 

 the middle. Of these, F, auricularia^ Jack, a common Molucca 

 species, and F pltmieric^ora^ A. DC, from the Philippines, are 

 not easily mistaken ; but we have next a set of East Indian ones 

 which present the greatest difficulty in defining. F. ohovata, 

 Wall., from Khasiya, is well figured in the * Botanical Magazine,' 

 t, 4205. F. coromandelicma^ Wight, Ic. t. 1316, of which I have 

 seen but a single very poor specimen, is very like it in the flowers, 

 but the petioles of the leaves are very short. F. crassifolia^ BL, 

 gathered in Malacca by Griffith, has the leaves and calyx of F, 

 ooovata^ but only one or three sessile flowers and apparently a 

 shorter tube to the corolla. F. glohosa, Wall., from Tavoy, only 

 known in fruit, is perhaps identical with the last. F. malaharica 

 01 Wight or of Blume, for both have given it that name with 

 reference to Rheede's figure of Modagam, vol. iv. t. 58, has again 

 the foliage of F. ohovata^ and some specimens from the Calcutta 

 vtarden have been so named in some herbaria, and figured as such 

 m Griffith's Icones ; but the flowers are rather smaller and more 

 slender, the calyx shorter, and the inflorescence often, but not 

 always, looser. Specimens from Ceylon again, gathered by 

 Champion, have the short calyx and the corolla of F. malaharica^ 

 but with the short petioles of F. coromandeliana^ and Blume's F 

 o^ovatO'javana from Java appears intermediate between several of 

 these, so that it is not improbable that the whole of these may 

 Intimately prove to be varieties of F. ohovata. All appear to have 

 a globular or somewhat ovoid fruit at least an inch in dianeter. 



The Khasiya collections contain another species, near to F, oh- 

 ovata in foliage, but with a more lax inflorescence, smaller flowers, 

 ^d especially a much smaller ovate-oblong fruit. In this the 

 ovarj^ is bilocular only at the base. In the upper part the parietal 

 placentae do not meet. 



The only tvvp remaining species of this group of which I have 

 seen specimens, are one gathered by Jjoy^e in Borneo, which, from 

 the form of its leaves and flowers, may be the F. minor of Blume, 

 and one from the Feejee collection of the American Exploring 

 Expedition, which may be new, but which I am afraid to charac- 

 terize without comparison with some of Blume's evidently allied 



to It. 



. In the second group, or so-called BacemostB^ the short few- 





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