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nor, indeed, is it described as such in the original*. It was this 
mistaken notion which, probably, induced Jussieu (whose very 
errors respecting the natural arrangement of plants are often in- 
dicative of much discernment) to class the plant in question with 
the Capparides. That it does not, however, belong to this order, 
but must be transferred to that of the Malvacece, in the proximity 
of Bombax, Adansonia, or Carolinea, will, perhaps, appear from 
the following description : 
DURIO ZIBETIIINUS. 
Calyx duplex: uterque inferus, monophyllus, subcoriaceus, intus 
glaber, extus nitidis squamis argenteus : squamae minutissimae, 
patellatae, radiatae, marginc erosae, pellucidae, centro puncto 
nigro notatae. 
Exterior latus, fundo pro excipiendo interiore excavatus, 
bilobus: lobi lineas novem ad pollicem longi, concavi, 
obtusi, patentes. 
Interior pollicaris, urceolatus, medio vcntricosus, obsolete 
quinquesulcatus, basi attenuatus, fundo maculis quinque 
prominulis (nectariis?) notatus, ore dentatus: dentes quin- 
que, recti, acuti. 
Corolla : Petala quinque, fundo calycis inserta, bipollicaria, 
squalide alba, unguiculata. Lamince ovato-lanceolatae, pa- 
tenti-renexae, integerrimae, sensim abeuntes in Ungues brevi- 
ores, crassiusculos, longitudinaliter sulcatos. 
* The following is a translation of Rumpf 's own words : — " Exactly in the middle 
(of the flower) there is a long style, with a yellow head (stigma), situate (the style, but 
not the stigma) on an oblong, granulous knob (germen), which becomes the fruit j" 
which the Latin translator has given thus : — " In horum centro longus continetur stylus, 
qui luteum gerit capitulum, quod oblongo insidet granuloso pistillo, quod abit iu 
fructum." 
tuS Stamina: 
