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in which Mueller and Baillon include them as sections, in habit, 

 in their short terminal racemes, spreading or reflexed calyx, 

 longer petals, much-raised conical or columnar receptacle in the 

 male flower, divided styles, and other minor characters. 6. Al- 

 phandia, 2 New-Caledonian species unknown to me, but which 

 from Baillon's character must be nearly allied to Baloghia. 7. 

 Fontainea, Heckel, as referred to by Baillon in the 11th vol. of 

 ' Adansonia,' and described Hist. PI. v. 194, a single New-Cale- 

 donian species, found also in Australia, now shown to differ from 

 Baloghia in several important characters, especially in the drupa- 

 ceous fruit, which was unknown to me when describing it under 

 Baloghia for the ' Flora Australiensis.' 8. Blachia, originally esta- 

 blished by Baillon, but reduced by Mueller to a section of Codi- 

 ceum, from which it differs in habit, in the peculiar terminal in- 

 florescence, the slender pedicels of the male flowers forming an 

 umbel or a very short loose raceme at the end of the peduncle, in 

 the small imbricate male calyx, the scale-like glands of the disk 

 as long as the short petals, the divided styles, the fruiting peri- 

 anth more or less enlarged and foliaceous, or very deciduous. It 

 now contains 5 Asiatic species much resembling each other in 

 foliage, but distinguishable by the following characters : — (1) B. 

 umhellata, Baill. : floribus masculis ad apicem pedunculi stricte 

 umbellatis, calyce fructifero parum aucto patente segmentis obtu- 

 sis : Ceylon. — (2) B. reflexa, sp. n. : floribus masculis ad apicem 

 pedunculi stricte umbellatis, calyce fructifero parum aucto arete 

 reflexo segmentis acutis : Neilgherries (G. Thomson). — (3) B. 

 Pentzii (Codi<eum, Muell. Arg.) : floribus masculis in pedunculo 

 tenui 2-3-umbellatis, calyce fructifero parum aucto patente, seg- 

 mentis obtusis : China, prov.Kwantung(Zfrmce), Hainan (Swinhoe). 

 (4) B. calycina, sp. n. : floribus masculis apicem versus pedunculi 

 laxe racemosis v. subumbellatis, calyce fructifero valde aucto 

 patente segmentis acutis foliaceis : Neilgherries (G. Thomson), 

 also in Bottler's herbarium. — And (5) B. denudata, sp. n. : floribus 

 masculis in pedunculi parte superiore subracemosis, calyce 

 foemineo jam sub anthesin deciduo, fructu denudato ; folia 

 quam in cseteris speciebus majora : Malabar hills (Low, Stocks, 

 Hitchie, Dalzell). 9. Bimorphocalyx, 3 or 4 species or marked 

 varieties from Ceylon, the Indian peninsula, and the Malayan 

 archipelago, including Codiceum andamanicum, Kurz, referred by 

 Mueller to a section of Trigonostemon, but differing much in in- 

 florescence, in the male calyx, in the stamen, in the much-enlarged 



