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FflUTEX maxima, super arbores altos volubilis^ omnibus partibus scatens laotc albo, spisso et viscido. Rami cylindrici, cinerel, glabri, 

 calloso-punctati ; juniores longissimi et gracillimi, flagellifoiines, adpress^ sericeo-villosi, flaccidi, subpenduli. Folia approximata' 

 patentia, ovata, obtusa cum cuspidula recurvata, basi rotundata, nunc pariim retusa vel subcordata, integerrima, 4— 5-pollicariai 

 subcoriacea, supr^ saturate viridia, glabra, subtus pilis densissimis, mollissimis, adpressis sericeo-fulgentia, costa elevata basi utrinque 

 glandulam gerente oblongam, planam, pilis adpressis conspersam, mox nigricantem, ad apicem petioli extensam; nervis obliquis, parallelis, 

 approximatis, gracilibus, prominentibus, ad peripheriain incurvato-anastomosantibus. Petiolus teres, crassiusculus, adpressfe pilosus, 

 sericeus, folio terti5 vel quadruple brevior, exstipulatus. Fohix Jloralia pauca, ovato-lanceolata, 2-pollicaria. Cym^ axillares, termina- 

 lesque, pedunculatse, multiflorse, solitarise, subumbellatim bis terve ad apicem divlsse, inflorescentiam amplam, ovatam formantes, sericeo- 

 argentese, pilosae. Pedunculus petiolo dupl6 longior, cylindricus, nudus. Flores magni, speciosi, candidi, inodori, dispositi in racemis 

 brevibus, suffulti pedicellis crassis, semiunguicularibus, clavatis, ad basin bractels nmnitis duabus oblongis, obtusis, extiis sericeis, deciduis. 

 Calyx oblongus, lineas 4 emetiens, persistens, fructus auctus ; sepala coriacea, valdfe inajqualia, oblonga, intfis leevia, margine purpuras- 

 centia, interiora 2 minora. Corolla subrotata ; tubus brevis, ampins, calycem longitudine baud siiperans, glaber ; Umbus patentissimus, 

 ferfe planus, poUicem et dimidium transversum emetiens, usque ad faucem divisus in lacinias 5 oblongas, obtusiusculas, supra glabras, 

 sulcatas, subtiis sericeo-pilosas, 3-costatas, sestivatione in formam cylindraceo-oblongam plicatas; faux clausa valvis 5 carnosis, sub- 

 cucuUato-oblongis, obtusis, conniventibus, densfe glanduloso-villosis, vix lineola obsoleta per tubum decurrentibus, staminiferis, cum 

 laciniis limbi alternantibus. Stamina 5, exserta, parallela, fer^ sequalia, glaberrima ; Jilamenta ferfe poUicaria, filiforaiia, recta, infra 

 apicem valvularum faucis inserta ; antherce lineari-oblongse, subsagittatse, erectse, extrorsse ; loculis parallelis, membranaceis ; pollen 

 dilutissimfe luteum, ferh album, constans globulis grandiusculis, hyalino-echinatis. Ovarium parvum, ovatum, Iseve, cinctum disco annulari, 

 brevissimo, flavicante, nitido, obsolete 5-crenato ; basi 2-loculare, loculis dispermis ; ovula magna, loculum omnin5 replentia, erecta. 

 Stylus filiformis, longitudine staminura. Stigma maximum, carnosum, capitatum, subhemisphaericum, profundi bilobum, densissim^ 

 papillosum. Capsula globosa, fusca, glabra, magnitudine seminis piperis nigri, monosperma, insidens fundo arilli completi, laxi et 

 quasi inflati, globularis, tenuis, carnosi, coccinei, intus membrana coloris dilutioris, Isevi obtecti, styli basi ssepfe coronati, pisum maximum 

 emetientis, sufFulti sepalis concavis, patentiusculis, erubescentibus, unguicularibus. Integumentum coriaceum, crassiusculum. Peri- 

 SPERMUM parcissimum, vald^ viscidum, hyalinum. Embryo pallid^ viridis, contortuplicatus. 



This superb shrub was sent by John Reeves, Esq. from China to the botanic garden at Calcutta in 1820, where it 

 flowered for the first time after a lapse of five years. It has since grown to a gigantic size, reaching to the summit of 

 a large Mango tree, its stem being as thick as the wrist, and the branches stout and very numerous. Its leaves are 

 extremely beautiful, on account of the great regularity of their form, the dark green colour of the upper surface, and 

 the silvery shining hoariness of the lower. The great abundance of clusters of large, white flowers, produces a very 

 striking effect. The species comes very near to Laureiro's Argtjreia obtusifoUa, but seems to differ in the subcordate 

 leaves, and the superior size of all its parts ; it is possible, however, that it may be found to be the identical plant. 



Plate LXXVI. Fig. 1. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx and bracts. 4. Corolla. 5. Cluster of fruit. 6. Arillus opened. 



MELHANIA Hamiltoniana. Tab. 77 



Densissime cano-tomentosa ; foliis ovato-subcordatis, obtusis, inaequaUter acute dentatis ; pedunculis axillaribus, 

 petiolo duplo longiorlbus, 3-floris. 



Novi generis species secunda, Herb. Hamilt. in Museo Banksiano. 



Habitat ad loca arida, arenosa ripte Irawaddi prope Melloon et pracipue ad Paghamew et Yenangheun, etiam in 

 monte Taong Dong dicta ; florens sub pluviis, a mense Septembri ad Octobrem ; fructigera Novembri. In horto bo- 

 tanico Calcuttensi floret Novembri. 



Frutex 2— 3-pedalis, ramosa, omnibus partibus obsita tomento denso, raoUi, cano, stellato, punctulis fuscis, glandulosis inserto. Rami 

 teretes, patentes, rigidi.' Folia sparsa, patentia, subapproximata, ovata, obtusa, Isevissim^ cordata, nunc basi rotundato-obtusa, ineequalitfer 

 serrata serraturis ovatis, acutis, interdum pariim sinuata, 2-3-pollicaria, utrinque tomentosa, mollissima, subths albicantia adque basin 

 subquinquenervia cseteriim nervis frequentibus, obliquis, costaque elcvatis, venis reticulatis, prominentibus. Petiolus teres, pollicaris, apice 

 intumescen. StIpul^ axillares, opposite, erectse, setacese, unguiculares, vestitse, deciduoe. Pedunculi axillares foliorum superiorum, 

 terminalesque solitarii, teretes, tomentosi, petiolis bis terve longiores, erecto-patentes, apice alternatim 3-flori. Pedicelli crassmsculi, 

 semiunguicukres uti calyx bracteseque cano-lanuginosi. Flores majusculi, flavi, involucrati. Calyx 5-partitus ; lacimce lanceolatae, cus- 

 pidato-acuminat^, patentes, intiis glabra., ^stivatione valvati«. Involucrum dimidiatum, 3-phyllum, laterale, calycem extrorsflm sufFultiens, 

 eodemque pariim longius, cumque eo persistens, fructus parfim auctum ; foliola carnosa, ovato-subcordata, aucta, undulata, margmibus 

 recurvata, Txtiis concaviuscula, subunguiculata, intermedium pariim majus, fer^ semiunciale. Petala 5, glaberrima, flaya, patentissima, 

 obovata, Obtusa, vel subretusa, pariim obliqua, basi contracta, calyce dimidi5 longiora, ^stwatione convoWimbncantia. Stamina 10, 

 ipsabaJi angusissim^ monadelpha, erecta, la^via ; alterna antherifera, brevissima subulata ; alterna steriha lmeari4igulata, flavicantia, 

 plana, basi d^atata, apice obtusa et subconvergentia, fertilibus tripl6 longiora. Anther, oyatae, erectae, biloculares, locubs extrorsiim 

 Lis Ovarium oJum, tomentosum, 5-loculare ; ooula in singulo loculo circitk 6, bisenaha, axi mserta. Stylus cylindncas, brevis- 



