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126 1>B. TllOMSOir ok the genus HEMIGyM:KIA., GRIFF. 



Semiqymnia, Griffith. By Thomas Thom- 



Esq., M. 

 Botanic 



[Bead February 18, 1858.] 



Botanists will be glad to learn that a valuable con 

 OUT knowledge of the little-known flora of Malwah 

 India has recently been made bv the labours of Lieu 



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province 



^talogui 



Journal of the Asiatic Society 



Bengal 



known 



Mr. M 



henacecBj under the name of Hemigy 



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readily distinguishable 



stamina, the stvles twice bifid, as in Cordia. and the fruit 



fruit 



Tectona 



He 



founded 



Griffith, the brief description contained in that author's paper, 

 and repeated in DeCandoUe's * Prodromus/ vol. xi. p. 697, is all 

 that is known on the subiect. These snecimens, which were per- 



very 



Lguial 



Among other interesting plants, Lieut. Beddomehas sent excel- 



Hemt 



gymnia. In this I have no doubt he is correct, for, except in one 



agrees very closely with 



with that assigned 



M'Leod to Kemigymnia (Dahman or Dahyan), is so similar, that 

 in all probabiKty both are intended to represent the same sound. 

 Griffith's description having been transferred by Schauer with 

 only some verbal alterations to DeCandolle's * Prodromus,' it is 

 not necessary to repeat it here. Jiieut. Beddome's plant has an in- 

 fundibuliform, striated, five-toothed calyx. The tube of the corolla 



infundibuliform 



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