30 ME. D. OLIVEB ON AUEANTIACEJE. 



§ 1 . Flores letrameri (in C. brevistyla et C. heptaphylla interdum pen- 

 tameri.) 



* Injlorescentia terminalis, paniculata. 



1. C.pentaphylla (IDC. Prod.i. 538; Don. Gen. Syst. i. 586). Foliis 



3-5-7-fbliolatis, ovario piloso, stylo fere glabro brevissimo. 

 Amyris pentaphylla ? Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 247- — ' A. pentaphylla, Roxb.' ; 



Wall. Cat. ex Hort. Bot. Calc.l ? Limonia? mollis. Wall. Cat. 



6362* 

 hoc. India bor.-occidentali ! Edgeworth, Hb. Benth. Prope Cawnpore. 



fide Roxb. I.e. p. 248. 



Frutescens (fide Roxb.). Ramuli breve v. scabride pubescentes. Folia 



6-12 unc. Foliola utrinque in nervis ssepius pubescentia, pagina 



sup. denique fere glabra v. glabrescens, 4-8 unc. longa, ovali- v. 



ovato-elliptica, vix acuminata, apice obtusiuscula, retusa v. emargi- 



nata, margine plus minus obsolete undulato-crenulata. Panicula 2-10 



unc, ramis breve hirsutis. Pedicelli brevissimi, 1 lin. et infra. Calyx 



4-lobatus, v. dentato-lobatus. Petala 4 extus plus minus pilosa v. 



fere glabra. Stamina 8, alterna parum breviora ; filamentis medio 



dilatatis, apice subulatis. Ovarium stipitatum, 4-sulcatum, pilosum, 



4-loculare ; ovulis geminatis superimpositis, stipite glabro v. subglabro. 



Stylus brevissimus, crassiusculus, ovarium sequans v. eodem brevior. 



Stigma 4-lobulatum, subcapitatum v. fere sequilatum. Bacca (fide 



Roxb. I. c.) ovata, obtuse apiculata, monosperma. 



The plant distributed by Dr. Wallich under 8519 A. certainly looks 



somewhat different from Mr. Edgeworth's specimens, though I am unable 



to distinguish them specifically. The leaflets are fewer and, proportionally, 



considerably larger, less pubescent, and thinner in texture. 



The inflorescence of Dr. Wallich's plant is smaller, and its ramifications 

 more slender. Dr. Roxburgh states in ' Flora Indica,' I. c. p. 248, that 

 there are "many ovula" in each cell of the ovary. This, I think, must be 

 an error. I identify his plant by the Wallichian specimen,— which is the 

 Amyris pentaphylla of the Calcutta garden,— as well as by Dr. Roxburgh's 

 figure in the East India Company's drawings, and his description, apart 

 from this item of the ovules. 



2. C. heptaphylla, Wt. fy Am. Prod. Flor. Penins. p. 95 (in annot.). 

 Foliis 7 (5-9) -foliolatis, foliolis basi fere acqualibus ^ leviter obliquis, 

 ovario plus minus obovato 4-sulcato-lobulato glabro, glandulis im- 

 mersis saepe mammillato, stylo ab ovario distincto subsequilongo, stig- 

 mate sequilato. — Wall. Cat. 8508. 



Amyris heptaphylla, Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii. p. 248, et tab. (Mus. E.I.C.) 

 1054. 



Loc. Circ. Calcuttam, fide Roxb. I. c. ; Silhet ! Wall. Hb. ; Khasia, 

 0-4000 ped., et Chittagong ! J. D. H. $ T. T. (? var. pubescens, 

 Cookia? macrophylla, Ldl., Wall. Cat. 6367, ripa fl. Saluen). 



Frutex. — Folia 6-16 unc. longa. Petioluli 1^-2 lin. long. Foliola 



* Very probably a true synonym, but the only specimen in Hb. Wallich. 

 u a poor one. It is from Oude. 



