34 ; CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
but they seem to me to rest partly on imperfect observations. 
I was naturally led to examine carefully the structure of Bergera 
Königii in connection with this plant, and I found the ovules suspended 
from very near the apex, /o the top of the cell. I examined fresh 
specimens, both wild and cultivated, and was not a little surprised to 
find in the /atter, that the cells of the ovary have often two collateral 
ovules. Even if I had not observed this fact, I might have justly 
inferred that the ovules, when solitary, were so only by abortion, from 
the structure of the dissepiment and the position of the solitary 
ovule. The dissepiment is thin, membranous, and diaphanous ; 
down the centre run two stout parallel veins, which give origin to the 
ovules. Where one ovule only is present, it is found entirely on one 
side and attached to one vein only; and from this want of symmetry 
we are justified in concluding that twin ovules is the normal condition 
in each cell, and, under favourable circumstances, this is sometimes 
actually. the case. The obvious affinity, therefore, of Bergera to the 
plant E consideration, deducible from similar habit and appear- 
ance, fs increased by this discovery. What appears to be another 
species of this new genus, is a shrub described by Junghuhn, in his 
*Reisen durch Java, as growing in the cemeteries of the Chinese in 
that island, and which he calls ** genus novum Sclerostyli affine.” 
Tas. IL. fig. 1, flower-bud; fig. 2, flower; fig. 3, stamens; fig. 4, 
pistil; fig. 5, vertical section of ovary; fig. 6, transverse section of 
ovary. 
Nat. Ord. SANTALACEZÆ. 
SPHJEROCARYA, - 
S. leprosa; foliis oblongis coriaceis glabris basi subrotundatis apice 
acutis (cum petiolo 6-9 lin.) 7 poll. longis 2 poll. latis, floribus 
in tuberculo axillari squamoso subsessilibus glomeratis, calycis 
laciniis brevissimis semiorbieularibus lacerato-ciliatis, corollæ petalis 
linearibus acutis apice recurvis sesquilineam longis, filamentis pe- 
talis oppositis iisque adnatis, fructu juniore pyriformi Zeproso, adulto 
sphzrico.— Crescit in Canara ; floret tempore frigido. 
~ This, which is a large tree, differs from the only published species 
in points of considerable importance, among which the existence of 
a distinct permanent calyx and well-developed petals, or, at least, 
parts occupying those relative positions, are not among the least. 
