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Tas. 5787. 
PHALERIA LAURIFOLIA. 
Laurel-leaved Phaleria. 
Nat. Ord. TuymeLe®,—Terranpria Monogynta. 
Gen. Char.—Perianthium hypocraterimorphum y. infundibuliforme, limbo 
subequali 4-6-fido, fauce nuda, Stamina 8, biseriatim disposita, fila- 
mentis exsertis; anthere adnate, connectivo crassiusculo. Ovarium 
sessile, 2-loculare, basi disco cupuleformi cinctum, glabrum ; stylus 
terminalis, exsertus, stigmate capitellato; ovula in loculis solitaria, prope 
apicem septi appensa. Drupa ovoidea, nuda, sarcocarpio fibroso, 1—2- 
sperma. Semina exalbuminosa; cotyledones carnose.—Arbores fru- 
ticesve Moluccane. Folia sparsa v. opposita, breviter petiolata. Flores 
capitati v. umbellati, terminales v. axillares—Puauerta, Jack, in Malay. 
Misc. v. ii. p. 59 (1822). Hook., Comp. Bot. Mag. v. i. p. 156. Dry- 
MISPERMUM, Reinwardt, Sylloge Nov. Pl. Ratisb. 1828, p. 15, t. ii. 
Puateria laurifolia ; foliis superioribus oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis, corymbis terminalibus paucifloris, involucri foliolis paucis an- 
gustis inequalibus, floribus extus pubescenti-pilosis 4—6-lobis, 
DrrmisPerMuM laurifolium. Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 2, v. xix. p. 89, 
t.i.f A. Meissn. in D. C. Prod. v. xiv. pt.2, p. 604. Miquel. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. v. i. part 1. p. 885. 
An evergreen stove shrub, remarkable for the delicious 
Daphne-like odour of its flowers. It was communicated to the 
Royal Gardens from Ceylon by our excellent correspondent, 
G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., F.R.S., under the specific name 
given above, and under which he received it, I believe, from 
the Buitenzorg Gardens of Java. It is a native of Timor, 
but is closely allied to various Malayan island species. The 
genus Phaleria having been published and well described by 
Jack in 1822, takes precedence of Reinwardt’s Drymispermum, 
which was not published till six years afterwards. The 
Malayan Miscellanies, printed at the Missionary press of 
Bencoolen in Sumatra, and of which the first volume, with 
many of Jack’s descriptions, appeared in 1820, and the second 
in 1822, are unfortunately extremely rare in European 
libraries, but how they came to be ignored by the Dutch 
auausT Ist, 1869. 
