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minutis subulatis posteriore amplo orbiculari apice bifido dorso medio 
aculeato-cuspidato anteriore cucullato mucronato, basi in calcar 
filiforme pedicello longius contracto, petalis fere ad basin divisis 
segmentis cuneato-obovatis apice bilobis segmento anteriore ampliore, 
fructu medio puberulo demum glabrato ovato-oblongo obtusissime 
rostrato 12—14-spermo, pedicellis fructiferis ereetis apice cernuis. 
Herba sesqui- bipedalis. Folium cum petiolo sesquipollicari 6-7 poll. 
longum, 24 poll. latum. lores rosei, ampli, pulcherrimi, diametro 
21 poll. Calcar 24 poll. longum.—Crescit in umbrosis prope 
Warree, in Concano australi ; fl. Aug. 
XANTHOXYLEA. 
" DrPETALUM. Genus novum. 
. GEN. CHAR. Z7oresdioici. Calyx ? Corolle petala 2, calyce multo ma- 
jora, profunde concava, cupuliformia, pellucido-punctata, estivatione 
imbricata. Floris masculi stamina 6; ovarii rudimentum apice bifi- 
dum.—Frutex inermis, foliis alternis trifoliolatis, foliolis elliptico-lan- 
ceolatis, equaliter petiolulatis, utrinque acuminatis, glabris, pellucido- 
punctatis, integris ; paniculis terminalibus. 
D. biloculare. 
This is without doubt the Yoddalia bilocularis of Messrs. Wight 
and Arnott, who place it in the genus Zoddalia with strong marks of 
doubt, the flowers never having been seen by these authors. I met with 
this shrub in Canara last April: at that time the buds were scarcely 
. formed, but after much searching I procured two half-expanded flowers, 
which will be an apology for the imperfection of the description. 
ANACARDIEA. 
GLYCYCARPUS. Genus novum. 
GEN. CHAR. Flores polygamo-dioici. Calyx quadripartitus, persistens ; 
laciniis ovatis, obtusis. Corolle petala 4, sub disco hypogyno 4-crenato 
inserta, oblongo-linearia, eestivatione imbricata. Stamina 4, sub disci 
margine inserta, cum petalis alterna iisque breviora. Filamenta libera, 
anthere introrse biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. In floribus 
masculis ovarii rudimentum nullum. In flore fertili ovarium unicum, 
liberum, sessile, uniloculare: ovulum unicum, ex apice funiculi com- 
planati e basi loculi adscendentis pendulum ; stylus brevissimus ; 
