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dera. — _ PETRANDRIA MeNOCYNIA, . $93 
4 9.1: acuminata. R. : 
= Shrubby. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, omikinitel smooth; floral 
pair stem-clasping, and broader. Corymbs super-decompound, much 
crowded, and smooth. Calycine segments ensiform. pe. 
A very charming shrubby species, a native of the forests near Sile 
ze het, where it blossoms during the hot season, and €"— the air 
with the fragr ance of its flowers. © 3 
- Addition by N. W. | 
"The shrubs in the Botanic Garden have acquired a height of five 
to six feet. — Bark. scabrous, ash-coloured. — Branchlets roundish, 
smooth, pale. — Leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute at their base, from 
six to eight inches long, from two to mia broad, of rather a thin but 
firm texture, pale and glaucous, opaque, slightly bullate above, whitish 
and scabrous beneath, with copious, opposite, parallel nerves uniting 
into sub-marginal arches ; veins reticulated.— Petiol short, roundish. 
Floral pair of leaves smaller than the rest, ovate-oblong, rounded 
at the base.— Stipules broad, triangular, acute, purplish.—Corymbs 
large, sub-sessile, round, with snow-white, most fragrant, crowd- 
- ed flowers.— Peduncles twice or thrice trichotomous, very short, pu- 
_ bescent, with opposite linear-lanceolate bractes under each division. 
—Calyx ovate, with white lanceolate straight lacini supported by 
à pair of bractes.— Tube of the corol slender, an inch aud a half long. 
— Lacinie spreading, ov ate-oblong, obtuse, with recurved sides ; mouth 
Sürrounded with a series of silky long hairs. — Filaments reflécted | 
between the laciniz. — Anthers linear.—Stigma elevated above the 
mouth, club-shaped, bifid. ; 
e opaque remaikably pale and glaucous leaves, the sub-sessile. 
crowded c corymbs of large white blossoms, with white calyces, suffici- i; 
ently distinguish this elegant shrub from IL — R. aud all the 
other species. 
E I. rr Vahl. Symbol. iii. p. 11. t. 52. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 
Willd. i i. 609. 
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