168 .  TRIANDRIA MONOGYNTA. —— Johmaa. 
simple. Capsules three, cuneiform, striated, three inches 
long, and about one and a half broad, -one-celled, two-valy- 
ed; valves. exactly boat-shaped. Seeds two, ovate, com- 
pressed, enlarged with an oblong, soft, thin, spongy wing, 
the attachment is between its apex and the base of the 
' eapsules. Integument single, ochraceous. _Perisperm none. 
Embryo oblique, compressed. Cotyledons conform to the 
seed, yellow. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle oval, sub-in- 
ferior. 
JOHNIA. R. 
kobe inferior, five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol_ five- 
petalled. Nectary or receptacle of the stamina and pistil- 
lum sub-globular. Germ three-celled ; ovula one or two in 
each cell, palates Berry one or mone-eandeil Embryo with- 
out perisperm, direction various, 
In honour of the Rev. Dr. John of Tranquebar, It is near- 
ly allied to Salacia, Gen. pl. ed, Schreb. 1380, ts proper 
place is probably the third order of this class, 
A. J. salacioides, R. 
| Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, entire, firm and polish. 
ed, Calyx five-leaved. Petals sessile. Anthers sessile on the 
three divisions of the nectary. 
A native of Tipperah, Chitageng, wal one ei 08 ‘hie 
eastern frontier of Bengal. It flowers in the Botanic garden 
during the hot season, and ini inirapsa caries A ; 
the rains, a ae 
A large, very ramous halk ith ‘ate eclae poate 
much, and often drooping elegantly. Bark of the ligneous — 
pests Irena eeagnearemsnevenmronny sett: thier panne 
twigs smooth. | 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ciated veladinaiad 
Mt satins, firm, points ghiaenaccsiah es ; about four inahal : 
