Melodinus. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA,. 50 
smooth, Corol five-parted rotate ; segments oblong, in the 
bud imbricated. Necfary subcylindric ; exterior lamina 
membranaceous, ensiform, ending in long, fine, acute 
points, which converge over the stigma, their texture 
horny and polished ; in their retuse tops, are the pits 
where the anthers are lodged. Germs two; Style short ; 
cummon stigma five-angled ; to the points of the angles 
the five-ovate, hard, polished, chesnut-coloured bodies 
are attached, which give substantial support to the five 
pairs of large, oval anthers, by means of their thick, 
short, polished chesnut-coloured, cyathiform pedicels, 
29. A. acuminata. R. 
‘Ligneous parts with suberous bark. Leaves ovate-ob- 
long, acuminate, above polished, villous underneath. Um- 
bels paired in the alternate axils, sub-globular, crowded. 
Mouth of the corol with five incurved glands, 
A large scandent, and twining perennial, with the bark | 
of the trunk, and old woody parts particularly spongy, 
and deeply split. The young shoots villous. Umbellets, 
in pairs, sub-axillary, and never in opposite axils; 
crowded with small, white, short-pedicelled flowers. Lt is 
a native of the forests of Chittagong, and from thence was 
introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 
pinto eaout the beginning of the Bis season. 
bas YESS Ere ha VERT 
MELODINUS. Schreb. po n. 425. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol infundibuliform ; mouth 
crowned with five simple, or divided scales. Gein 
perior, two-celled ; ovu/a numerous, attached to the thick, ae 
elevated centre of the partition. Berry two-celled, seeds 
numerous, immersed in pulp. Embryo furnished with a 
seen; adicle centripetal. 
