LIGUSTRUM NAPALENSE. Tab. 270. 
Ligustrum napalense, Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 1. p. 151. 
Habitat in Napalia, florens mensibus Aprilis—Junii, fructiferum Decembre et Januario. 
The late Sir J. E. Smith informed me, in a letter dated the 6th of March 1820, that he considered this tree as 
identical with Thunberg's Ligustrum japonicum. I found another species in fruit on Taong Dong, near Ava, which 
resembles our plant very closely, but which may perhaps be distinguished in the following manner: 
L. pubescens (Wall. Cat. Herb. n. 1742); foliis lanceolatis acutiusculis, subglabris; ramis ecallosis, apice pu- 
bescentibus, baccis oblongis, pruinosis, paniculatis. 
Roxburgh’s Ligustrum laurifolium, Hort. Beng. p. 3, of which he has left no description or drawing, is probably 
my Chondrospermum smilacifolium, Catal. Herb. n. 2837, described by me under the name of Chionanthus? smilacifolia 
in Roxburgh's Mora Indica, vol. 1. p. 108. 
Plate CCLXX. Fig. 1.2. Flower. 3. Calyx. 4. Corolla. 5. Part of a berry-bearing panicle. 6. Detached berry. 
7. 8. The same, divided in two ways. 
AVICENNIA TOMENTOSA. ‘Tab. 271. 
Avicennia tomentosa Linn., Brown. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. vol. 1. p. 518. 
Oepata, Rheed. Hort. Mal. vol. 4. p. 95. t. 45. 
Avicennia Oepata, Herb. Hamilt. 
Crescit ad litora maris marginesque æstuariorum totius Indiæ, florens fructiferaque tempore calido et pluvioso. 
Ad ripas æstuarii fluminis Hoogly, Sunderbun dicti (Hamilton et ipse). In Penang et Singapur, 1822. Ad oras 
Martabaniæ, 1827. In Herbario Finlaysoniano. 
Annon magnitudine varians, nunc excelsa, nunc mediocris, modd arbusculæ staturam vix attingens. Rawr cylindrici, fusco-canescentes, 
patentes. Forra approximata, patentia, opposita, ovalia, obtusa, integerrima, basi subattenuato-acuta, 3—4-pollicaria, coriacea, suprà 
lucida, subtús mollia, incana vel flavicantia, obtectaque squamulis minutissimis, densé adpressis, costå elevatå, nervis tenerrimis intra mar- 
ginem inzegualitêr arcuato-anastomosantibus, venisque capillaceis reticulatis, siccitate tantüm conspicuis. Perionus semipollicaris, suprà 
levitêr sulcatus, sulco versus basin dilatato, cano-villoso, marginato, insertione lineolâ ad petiolum oppositi folii trans ramum excurrens. 
PawrcULA terminalis erecta, subbrachiata, palmaris, simplicitêr ramosa, constans florum parvorum, sessilium fasciculis remotiusculis 
bracteolatis; aliquando ramulus unus alterve oritur ex alis foliorum supremorum apice fasciculos paucos gerens. PEpUNcULI obsoletè 
quadrangulares, villosuli.  Bracreæ infra divisuras paniculæ opposite, lineari-oblongæ, patentes, coriaceæ. CaLyx sessilis, coriaceus, 
ovatus, 5-partitus; laciniæ bracteoleque aliquot suffultientes ovate, obtusæ, ciliatæ, mox fuscescentes. CoroLLA flava, crassiuscula, 
campanulata; tubus amplus, calyce longior, sursòm limbusque 4-fidus villosus; laciniæ ovatæ, acutiusculæ, patentes, subæquales, postica 
levissimå fornicata. FrLAMENTA 4 subulata, patentia, fauci perviæ inter lacinias inserta, iisdem breviora; antheræ ovatæ, crassiusculæ. 
Ovarrum ovatum, densè villosum, 2-loculare, 4-sporum ; ovula oblongo-cuneata, pendula ex apice axis compresse tetragonæ; stylus 
cylindricus, tubo parüm longior, villosus; stigma bifidum, acutum. PERICARPIUM oblique ovatum, compressum, sesquipollicare, attenuato- 
acutum, styli basi persistente cuspidatum, dense et molliter cano-tomentosum, basi rotundatå suffultum calyce bracteisque persistentibus, 
emareidis. INTEGUMENTUM simplex, coriaceum, tertiam lineæ partem crassum, intüs lævissimum, argenteo-nitens. EMBryo maximus, 
coriaceo-carnosus, saturatè viridis, erectus, cavitatem omninò replens pericarpio formá similis, basi concaviusculå adfixus receptaculo 
parvulo, convexo, cujus vertici adhuc adherent ovula tria sterilia, pendula, emarcida, membranacea, fusca. CoTYLEDONES latissime, 
reniformi-cordatæ, crassissimæ, læves, nitidæ, integerrimæ, conduplicatæ, subinæquales, exterior obtusissima, interior acuta ; lobi basis 
magni, rotundati, inæquales, imbricantes. RADICULA longa et crassa, densissimé barbata lanugine alba longa et molli, oblique inter 
cotyledones adscendens eosque apice adfigens, basi nudá papillosa ; scapus primüm nullus, sed mox, semine intra pericarpium germi- 
nante, elongatus, cylindricus, attenuatus, levis ; plumula diphylla. 
The discovery of the singular structure of the fruit of this tree, as contrasted with that of the unimpregnated 
ovule, is due to Dr. R. Brown, who published it in his Flora of New Holland, the richest mine of discoveries and 
profound researches in natural history which has ever been offered to the world. It will be seen that the ovary con- 
tains four pendulous ovules; of these, one only becomes impregnated, and enlarges into a perfect erect seed ; the 
other three continue in their original size and posture, but reduced to withered scales, which may be observed at the 
bottom of the cavity of the fruit, on one side of the small receptacle to which seed at first adhered. But there is 
a slight modification in the masterly account given by Dr. Brown, which he has done me the honour to point out, 
purposely that I might introduce it on the present occasion; namely, although the ovules are pendulous, and the 
