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This is a small tree, with a stem not more than six inches in diame- 
ter: the young shoots are obtusely angular, and the flowers have a 
heavy and disagreeable odour. : 
2. C. levigata ; fruticosa, 4-pedalis, glabra, foliis breve petiolatis ob- 
longis acuminatis obscure serratis vel subintegris subcomplicatis 
coriaceis margine revolutis utrinque nitentibus, stipulis acuminatis 
glabris, floribus numerosis axillaribus glomeratis, pedicellis supra 
basin articulatis. 
Calyx 5-partitus, foliolis rotundatis concavis viridibus extus glabris. 
Stamina 8, squamis alternantibus subæquilongis acutis penicillatis. 
Stylus nullus, filamenta glabra. Stigma capitatum, in ovario conico 
sessile. Folia cum petiolo (4-5 lin.) 5-8 poll. longa, 2-3 poll. lata. 
Stipule 2 lin. longæ, margine lacerato.— Crescit prope mare in Con- 
cano australiore ; fl. Junio et Julio. 
The bark on the young branches of this shrub is white, and highly 
polished. The smell of the flower is not disagreeable. The fruit has 
not yet been seen. 
8. C. rubescens; fruticosa, 4—6-pedalis, tota glabra, foliis petiolatis 
ovato-oblongis integerrimis basi rotundatis apice subito obtuseque 
acuminatis coriaceis marginibus recurvis, petiolis foliisque junioribus 
costa rubris. 
Calyx 5-partitus, foliolis rotundatis concavis luteo-albis margine cilio- 
latis. Stamina 8, calyce breviora, squamis crassis truncatis alter- 
nantibus longiora; squamæ filamentaque pilosa. Ovarium conicum. 
Stigma sessile, discoideum. Fructus oblongus, glaber, annulo insi- 
dens. Semina pauca, 6-8. Folia cum petiolo semipollicari 4-44 
poll. longa, 2 poll. lata, subeomplicata. Stipule minute, rufe, gla- 
bree, squamæformes.—Crescit in montibus Syhadree, lat. 15°; fi. Feb. 
The only species of this genus which Roxburgh has described with 
entire leaves is his C. esculenta, which is also a hill species, but the 
description is so meagre that I am unable to say whether it differs from 
that now under consideration. There is a great uniformity throughout the 
Indian species of this genus. Roxburgh mentions the position of the em- 
bryo as very variable, but I have not found it so in the species I have 
examined, and in two, at least, it oceupies the whole length of the seed. 
Endlicher has described the embryo as orthotropous, but in C. ovata, 
Willd., and C. graveolens (nobis), I find it just the contrary, or anti- 
` tropal. I may add, that I believe C. ovata, and C. tomentosa, Roxb., 
