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ovario biloculari, loculis uniovulatis.—Severinia buaifolia, Ten. Cat. 
Hort. Nap. p. 96. 
Abundant on the sides of hills near the race-course. 
Frutex humilis v. in hortis nostris arbuscula nana, divaricato-ramosa, 
ramulis junioribus obscure angulatis vel compressiusculis sæpe 
puberulis, mox glabratis teretibusque. Spine axillares validæ, foliis 
sepius multo breviores, nune rarius longiores. Folia 1-15 poll. 
longa, 6—9 lin. lata, obtusissima, basi in petiolum brevem teretem 
angustata, coriacea, rigida, crebre punctata, glabra, venis a costa 
media divergentibus numerosis parallelis, utrinque multo magis quam 
in plerisque speciebus conspicuis. Flores intra bracteas minutas 
ad axillas foliorum omnino sessiles v. pedicello brevissimo rarius fulti, 
nune solitarii, nune ssepius per 2-3 fasciculati. Calyx late campa- 
nulatus, linea brevior, glaber, laciniis 5 rotundatis obtusissimis. 
Petala 5, vix, 2 lin. longa, oblonga, erecta, glabra. Stamina 10, 
corolla breviora. Filamenta dilatata, apice attenuata. Anthere 
ovate, loculis parallelis... Ovarium intra discum cupulatum sessile, 
subglobosum, carnosum, loculis in centro minimis, ovulis paulo infra 
apicem axis centralis affixis. Stylus brevissimus, stigmate crasso 
ovoideo pulvinato. Bacca depresso-globosa, matura nigrescens, 
seminibus magnis ovoideis. 
Specimens communicated to me by Professor Tenore, from the 
Royal Botanical Garden of Naples, have enabled me to identify his 
Severinia as a not uncommon Chinese plant. It was gathered also at 
Macao by Mr. Millett, and referred, in the Botany of Beechey's Voyage, 
to the Atalantia monophylla, DC. The latter plant appears to be con- 
fined to India ; and all the more Eastern species referred to it by myself, 
as well as by other botanists, prove to be species of Scerostylis. 
5. Sclerostylis venosa, Champ., sp. n.; glabra, foliis subsessilibus ovatis —— 
v. ovali-oblongis obtusis subemarginatisque coriaceis crebre parallele 
venosis reticulatisque, floribus axillaribus breviter racemosis 4-5- 
meris, ovario biloculari loculis biovulatis, stylo stigmate longiore. 
Fever Hospital Hill, and other localities. 
Habitus sequentis (S. Hindsii), folia ramulorum floriferorum fere S. buxi- 
folie, sed basi obtusissima et brevius petiolata, inferiora multo majora, 
3 poll. longa, 1$ poll. lata. Venatio fere S. buxifoliæ. Spine valide, — — 
Racemus unicus suppetit axillaris, rachi semipollicari, floribus 4 bre- 
viter pedicellatis. Calyx S. Hindsii, sed laciniæ nunc 4 tantum, nune — 
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