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olo decurrentibus, margine denticulatis; petiolo lato, limbo 12—14plo breviore, mar- 
ginato : inflorescentia ignota ; sepalis 4 semiorbicularibus, ovario zquilongis, erectis ; 
petalis 4plo longioribus, obtuse oblongis, viridiusculis, flaccidis, reflexis; staminibus 
quam hee longioribus, pluriseriatis, filiformibus, imo in tubum sepalis longiorem 
monadelphis, imo sanguineis, арісе albescentibus; disco epigyno plane annulari, 
extus tubum staminigerum gerente, margine interno in urceolum erectum expanso, 
vertice hine profunde cavo; stylo longe filiformi, flexuoso, viridi; stigmate obtuso ; 
ovario subturbinato, obsolete octagono, 3—4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo pluri- 
mis biseriatis. In Java et ins. Nusa Kambanga in sylvis : non vidi. 
The excellent description of Hasskarl shows that this species belongs to Planchonia, 
which is confirmed by the seminal structure indieated by Blume eighteen years previously. 
Blume, however, confounded it with his Planchonia nitide, from which it is evidently 
distinct. It is described as a tall tree growing in woods; its leaves are 3-7 in. long, 
25-91 in. broad, on petioles 3-6 lines long, 3 lines broad ; the ovary is 3 lines long; the 
sepals of the same length; the petals are 14 lines long, 6 lines broad ; the staminiferous 
tube is 6 lines long, the filaments 18 lines long; the style is 24 lines long. 
6. CAREYA. 
A genus established in 1819 by Roxburgh in his * Plants of Coromandel,’ and acknow- 
ledged by all botanists : it consists of four species, natives of India and the Malayan penin- 
sula, where they form trees of considerable size, with one exception, which is of low 
suffruticose stature. The inflorescence is extremely short, terminal on the nascent 
branchlets, with a thick fleshy rachis, bearing 1-4 very approximated sessile handsome 
flowers, each supported by 2 braets, often of large size: the adnate calyx is surmounted by 
а cup-shaped limb, divided halfway into 4 rounded segments, which are subimbricated 
in the bud ; 4 large obovate fleshy petals; the stamens, of unequal length, are very 
numerous, pluriserial and monadelphous at their base, and present the peculiarity that 
the outer and longer series, as well as the inner and shorter rows, are destitute of anthers, 
the intermediate series alone being antheriferous; the inferior ovary is usually 4-, rarely 
5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, radiating from the central axis. "The fruit is 
globose, about the size of an orange, is crowned by the persistent calycine limb, has a 
smooth coriaceous pericarp, normally 4-celled ; but the dissepiments usually disappear, 
absorbed in the rather solid pulp, in which the many seeds are imbedded : the seeds are . 
oblong, subcompressed, about the size of a field-bean, sometimes smaller; they have no 
albumen, have an external thick testa, covering a solid mesopodal embryo, which often 
begins to germinate in the ripe fruit. This embryo, as in other genera, though solid, is 
actually formed of two agglutinated layers, the outer of which (the exorhiza) was declared 
by Roxburgh and Wight to be the albumen, the inner (neorhiza) being regarded by them 
ав ап embryo with agglutinated indistinguishable eotyledons and radicle. Вохһагыһ, іп 
à drawing copied by Wight, showed this seed in the act of germination; but this was 
afterwards better illustrated and explained by Dr. Thomson in the germinating seed of 
Careya arborea, where he showed there was no albumen, and that the inner body alone 
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