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Folia 10-20 lin. longa, 2-8 lin. lata, utrinque glandulis albis conspersa. 
Calyx 1 lin. longus, pilis albis rigidulis hirsutus, dentibus tubo 3-plo 
brevioribus. Spice 3—4 poll. longæ, graciles, densifloræ, floribus minu- 
tis. Anthemidem nobilem redolet.—Crescit in rupibus prov. Malwan. 
I do not give this so much as a new plant, as with a view to eluci- 
date a seeming inconsistency with respect to Roxburgh's Mentha qua- 
drifolia and Bentham's Dys. quadrifolia being one and the same plant. - 
I gathered the plant now described on dry rocks, where no water could 
lodge, and this seems to me to point to a plant having a very different 
habit and constitution to the * herba aquatica” of Bentham. I believe, 
therefore, that Roxburgh's M. quadrifolia, which he describes: as 
* growing among rocks," and for which, he adds, “ common garden-soil 
is too moist," is the plant above described, and not Bentham's D. qua- 
drifolia, which is said to grow naturally in stagnant water. The shape 
of the calyx-teeth is also very different. 
Nat. Ord. MEMECYLEX. 
MEMECYLON. 
M. terminale; frutex 2-3-pedalis, ramis dichotomis teretibus gracilibus, 
foliis sessilibus lanceolatis acuminatis, pedunculis axillaribus termina- 
libusque solitariis semipollicaribus, floribus umbellatis pedicellatis, 
pedicellis pedunculo 2-plo brevioribus. 
Folia obscure penninervia, 2—24 poll. longa, infra medium 9—10 lin. lata, 
basi rotundata. Fructus globosus, siccus, unilocularis, pisi majoris 
magnitudine. Semen unicum : cotyledones reniformes ; radicula longi- 
uscula, compressa, duobus lateribus alato-marginata.— Crescit in um- 
brosis montanis prov. Canara; fruct. Mart. Apr. 
This very distinct species I found in Canara, in localities very far _ 
from each other, so that it is probable that it is common throughout 
that province. It is, perhaps, the smallest of our Indian species, as I - 
have never seen it higher than three feet, and very slender. It is suffi- - 
ciently distinguished by its having always terminal as well as axillary - 
inflorescence, though the axillary is often wanting. It resembles Mem. 
Heyneanum most in the shape of its leaves, but differs by the leaves 
being sessile and the peduncles solitary. 
Nat. Ord. RUBIACEJE. 
IXORA. 
I. pedunculata ; fruticosa, foliis breve petiolatis ellipticis coriaceis gla- - 2c : 
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