is the most common, and I suppose the natural number,)ina dou. . 
ble series, equal, ovate-oblong, smooth. Nectary a three-sided, fleshy 
cup surrounding the insertion of the stamens and germ.— Filaments 
three, membranaceous, shorter than the corol. Anthers four-lobeds it 
—Germ ovate. Style short. Stigma sim ple.— Capsules three, cus 
neiform, striated, three inches long, and about one and a half broad, 
oue-celled, two-valved ; valves exactly boat-shaped.—Seeds two, ovate, 
| Compressed, enlarged with an oblong, soft, thin, spongy wing, the ats 
tachment is between its apex and the base of the capsules. Integus 
ment single, ochraceous.— Perisperm none.— Embryo oblique, come — 
pressed. Cotyledons conform to the seed, yellow. Plumula twos - 
lobed. Radicle oval, sub-inferior. g : 
á po JOHNIA. B. . i 
Calyz inferior, five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Nec- 
tary or receptacle of the stamina and pestillum sub-globular. Germ — 
 three-celled ; ovuda one or two in each cell, peltate. Berry one or 
more-seeded. Embryo without perisperm, direction various. 
In honour of the Rev. Dr. John of Tranquebar. Itis nearly 
allied to Salacia. Gen. Pl. ed. Schreb. 1380. I 
ts proper place is . 
probably the third order of this class. : PP 
1. J. salacioides. R. à 
Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, entire, firm and polished. E. 
Calyx five-leaved. Petals sessile. Anthers sessile on the three divis 2 
. sions of the nectary. ` Lon Un ne i 
: A native of Tipperah, Chittagong, and otber parts of the eastern. i 
frontier of Bengal. It flowers in the Botanic Garden during the hot 
-season ; and the fruit ripens about the close of the rams, |. = 
A large, very ramous shrub, with its branches spreading much, - 
and often drooping elegantly. Bark of the ligneous parts brownish 
and somewhat scabrous, that of the young twigs smooth, eee 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, recurved, broad-lanceolate, ne 
tire, firm, polished, obtuse-pointed; about four inches long, and- 
