El<Bocarpus.] xxviii. tiliace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 409 



E. Jackfanus, Wall Cat. 2679, not found in Wallich's Herbarium. It is said to be a 

 '^ative^of Sincapore, Jack, 



E. LoxGiFOLius, Wa'l Cat. 6682, from Ava, is indeterminable. It has very long, 

 strap-shaped leaves, pilose along the nerves. 



E. m^ocmoiT>Y.H, Wight. Ill i. p. 84. ''Leaves glabrous elliptic. Racemes lax. few- 



owered. Stamens indefinite, glabrous. Anthers pointed, beardless, shorter than the 



MosocERA FERRUGiNEA, Jach Mai. 31isc. ex Hook. Bot. Misc, ii. 86. " Leaves 



iong.Qvate, acuminate, entire, under surface as also the peduncles and branchlets fer- 



entire, with 



, w ,^ i -.^ ...., J, ^.^j.^ ^ ^ — , ...tber smooth, 



leT fl abortion. Seed oblong, pointed, albumen conform, embryo inverse, coty- 

 aons flat, radicle superior and much shorter than the cotyledons."— Jack states that 

 ^^ Old not fiPf^ ihi. fl^«.^..„ "^ 



rugijious villous, racemes axillary shorter than the leaves.— Zea^e* 6-7 in., 

 fevolute margins; petiole 2-2i in., downy. Drupe olive-shaped: nut rat 



not see the flowers. 



.ife .: ; Note on Roydsia. ' . ' ' ; 



^_ At p. 180 it is stated that Roydsia parviflora. Griff, is a Tiliaceous plant ; this is 

 ^^^^^"^^ R^ parviflora forms vi'iVa R. floribunda, Pianch. Mss. (Cuming, Philippine 

 ofTv ?^ T^^^"' °' ^^0. a subgenus of Roydsia, or a new genus closely allied to it, 

 o5f Vr • *^"^"* ^^ unknown. These plants differ from Roydsia suaveolens and ^. 

 i^'ii/o/ia in the linear-oblong buds, strap-shaped perianth-segments, which are imbri- 



ova^rJ^ T \^™^' ^" *'^^ anthers being entire at the base, in the long stipes of the 

 7, subulate style with 3 minute terminal stigmas, and in the few ovules in each 



^"- 1 WOlllH aii-r^^^i. 4.1 _p 4t . .. T r-ViL- 1 1 :„ „ll„„;rt« f/A 



in allusion to 

 floribunda, Planch. Mss., has flowers 



eatPfl r" ^ fl ^'^ diameter, very manv stamens, a very slender gynophore, which elon- 

 6 ^ alter flowering, and oblong leaves, 7-9 inches long. 



t Na^^ w^ "° ^^^^^ ^^^ '*^^* Roydsia should, as Griffith observes, form the type of 

 ALf *}' 1^^^®^ intermediate between Bixinece and Capparldece, Both Roydsia and 

 ^mtyl-i^ differ remarkably in habit from Tillacem. 



toydsia (Alytostylis) parviflora, Griff. Notul iv. 578 ; To. 

 ,f ^^^- 1. 607, f. 1 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, 



A cilmV-^ "^^jo^s near the Serpentine Mines at Hoofeuro, Griffith. 

 green ° ^ ^^' -^^^^^^ 4-7 by lf-2 in., glabrous, rather membranous, pale yellow- 



cent l^xT^^ almost horizontal ; petiole ^-\m., slender. Racemes (short, very pubes- 

 ttebnl ^^'^^ ^^^ forming small terminal panicles, rachis' slender; pedicels shorter than 

 Wa ohV '^^^^i^^^nlate, caducous. Flowers \ in. diam., inodorous, densely tomentose; 

 itrangu % Perianth divided nearly to the base into 6, biseriate, imbricate, obtuse, 

 tban tKa . ' ^l^^sely pubescent segments, that are finally recurved, not much shorter 



nceedii Jfr^"^"- ''^/wqp^iore short in flower, slender. Stam 



PuWpnf P^^anth-segments ; anthers not 2-fid at the base, ^i/c*.^ -— , j 



ttinutl ' <^ontracted into a stipes as long as itself, 3-celled; style subulate, stigmas 3, 

 &Hn^''' ^^^^ ^ i" ^^cl^ ^ell. 



Stamens about 20, not much 



Ovary ovoid, densely 



p. 180), have been recently 

 as are very small 



^^^Tff\\r^ ^» ^^""^^^ obtuse, apparently valvate, pubescent. Stamens about 18, 

 ^ited aMK i.^^"*'^"*^' Ovary glabrous, on a tomentose gynophore; styles 3, subulate, 

 ^ at the base.- j; D. j^;,^,^. 



%^ii Order XXIX. UNHiE. (Bj J. D. Hooker.) 



»«rrate -^ ^f^^- ^^?^"^s- i^eaws usually alternate, simple," entire, rarely crenate- 

 regular' u- P^^^^ lateral or intrapetiolar or 0. LiJlSrescence various. F/owen 



' "bisexual, ijepals 6, rarely 4, free or connate below, imbricate. 



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