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REEVESIA* thyrsoídea. 
Thyrse-flowered Reevesia. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. BYTINERIACEE; inter Sterculiam (Erythropsin) et Ptero- 
spermum. 
REEVESIA. — Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus, sestivatione imbricata, 
pube stellatá tomentosus, bracteolatus. Petala 5, hypogyna, unguiculata, 
sestivatione convoluta, callo inter unguem et laminam. Stamina in toro 
longo filiformi insidentia. Anthere 15, sessiles, in cyatho capituliformi, 
apice tantüm pervio, obsolete 5-dentato, connatee, extrorse, biloculares, 
loculis divaricatis, intricatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollen spheeri- 
cum, glabrum. Ovarium sessile, intra cyathum antheriferum, ovatum, 
glabrum, 5-angulare, 5-loculare, loculis dispermis. Ovula margini locu- 
lorum unum super alterum affixa, superiore basi concavo in inferiorem 
Incumbente, Stigma 5-lobum, simplicissimum, sessile. Capsula stipitata, 
lignosa, obovata, 5-angularis, 5-Jocularis, loculicidó 5-valvis, axi nullo. 
Semina cuique loculo duo basi alata. Arbor (Chine) folis alternis 
exstipulatis, racemis terminalibus compositis, floribus albis. — Lindley in 
rande's journ. n. s. 2. 112. 
` Reevesia thyrsoidea. Lindley, I. c. 
“ In a collection of dried specimens of plants sent to 
the Horticultural Society from China, by Mr. Reeves, are 
a few branches, with flowers, of a remarkable genus which 
is at present undescribed, but which is of so curious a 
nature, and of such importance with reference to the deter- 
mination of some natural affinities, that I have thought it 
deserving immediate record, especially as tg s of the 
fruit, which have been subsequently obtained from the 
* Named in honour of John Reeves, Esq., now resident at Canton, to 
whom we are indebted for our knowledge of this plant; from € 
unwearied exertions in the cause of science, the Botany of I as 
received material assistance; and to whom our Gardens are indebted for 
many of the fairest ornaments they contain. 
