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parts of these Islands, and particularly at Acheen, which has 

 been figured ia Andrews' Botanical Repository, under the 

 name of C pyramidale. It is a large showy plant. A still 

 more beautiful species, and perhaps the most elegant of the 

 whole genus, is the C. nutans^ so named by my friend Dr, 

 Wallich, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 

 wlio received it from the north-eastern frontier of Bengal. 

 I found it not uncommonly at Pulo Penang, and this is not 

 the only instance in which I have had occasion to observe 

 a coincidence between the plants of these distant countries. 

 This species is characterized as follows : 



C. nutans; {Wall.) foliis lanceolatis acuminatis glabris, pani- 

 culis longissimis terminalibus nutantibus, pedanculis re- 

 motis divaricatis paucifloris. 



The panicles or racemes hang gracefully from the extre- 

 mity of the branches; the flowers are white, not numerous; 

 the peduncles, or primary divisions of the panicle, being 

 remote, opposite, divaricated, short, and seldom bearing* more 

 than 3 flowers. It is called Unting-unting by the Malays- 



(This plant I find to be distinct from the Sylhet species, and 

 call it C. Jackiana. I have a third species, with nodding pan- 

 icles, (C. pendulijlorum^) which is a native of Tavoy. — Wall.) 



GMELINA VILLOSA. Boxh. 



G. villosa; spinosa, foliis rhomboideis subtus villosis, racemis 

 terminalibus, bracteis magnis acuminatis, drupis sph^ricis 

 dispermis. 



Radix Deipara?. Rumph. Amb. v, 2. p. 124. t. 39. Kap- 

 Briang. 



Native of Sumatra, &c.— Arborescent. Leaves opposite, 

 broadly ovate, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, rather obtuse, 

 entire, smooth above, villous beneath as well as the petioles 

 and branchlets. Bacemes terminal. Bracteas large, ovate, 

 acuminate. Calyx obliquely 4-toothed, marked externally 

 with 6 green scuteUae or pustules. Corolla yellow, ventricose. 



Anthers 2-Iobed. Ovary 4-spermous. Drupe with a 2-seeded 

 nut. 



