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XVII. On the Genus of Symplocos, RS Hopea, Alfloniay and 
Ciponima. By Mr. Charles Louis L Heritlfr, of the Academy of Sciences 
at Paris, Foreign Member of the Linnean Society. 
à _ Read January 5, 1790. 
UATUOR illa genera in unum compleéti fub nomine Sym- 
plocos planum mihi eft. Utinam de claffe necnon de fpeciebus 
non minus certe pronuntiare poffim ! 
Characteres tam effentialem quam naturalem primum exponam. 
SYMPEOCOS. 
Character. effentialis. 
Carvx fuperus, quinquepartitus. Petala 5—10, bafi coalita. 
Ordines plures filamentorum corolla adnati. Germen inferum. 
Drupa nuce tri-quinqueloculari. 
Charaéter naturalis. 
Car. Perianthium fuperum, campanulatum, quinquepartitum : 
laciniis fubrotundo-ovatis, concavis, villofis, perfiftentibus. 
Cor. quafi monopetala, campanulata, calyce longior, receptaculo 
inferta: petalis f. laciniis 5—10, ovatis, integerrimis, re- 
flexis, bafi in tubum longitudine calycis coalitis, fimul 
deciduis, 
STAM. 
