ox TWO NEW PLANTS FOUND IN CEYLON. | 
: of the od one for two equal cotyledons, the difference bend 
- Roxburgh’ s, and my observations will be accounted for. At all ev nt 
I consider that 7. aspera (and so’ marked is that species that I 
. seen no other confounded with it) must be held as the type of 
purus of Blume. 
In his * Bijdragen, p. 507, Blume suggests that his Urtica spi 
is another species of Æpicarpurus: Decaisne adds E. Timorensis, and 
says that Alérandia of Gaudichaud also belongs to it. Gaudichaud's 
character of Albrandia, in Freycinet's Voy. p. 709, is too imperfect to 
permit me either to affirm or deny this, and I have seen no specimens ; 
but all the species with which I am acquainted, either by specimens or 
figures, are furnished with thorns and smooth leaves, except the 
ginal species. (Zrophis aspera): in all, except it, the ovary underg 
an unequal development, the side to which the ovule is attached 
larging more rapidly than the opposite one; so that the style, whi 
first is at the apparent as well as real apex of the ovary, appear 
th latera and the ovule becomes more elevated than the bas of 
“The original and weder de af dijioasperm: scarcely 
any tendency to this kind of resupination, and has no spines. 
spinous section I refer Trophis spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii 
~ (Z. taxiformis, Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 215, or T.. 
— oides, Roxb. in E.L.C. Mus. tab. 120, and in Roth, Nov. Sp. p. 
— Epicarpurus Timorensis, Done., which scarcely differs as a species, 
unless characters not alluded to in the description and figure a 
derived from the specimens, and a Ceylon species, from Mr. Th 
. lately submitted to my inspection, in which the perianth 
`- female flower does not seem to enlarge with and at length e ni 
fruit, in that respect resembling more the genuine Epi : 
the foliage and fruit are those of the spurious groupe. i 
ae: fun flowers solitary or y so, "E th 1 
hk Blume's wo; his Trophis pode de Be flowers y 
least his generic character indicates this), and his short 
Urtica spinosa seems to indicate the s same EERE 
