 Psathura, | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 531 
Trunk straight, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 
Branches numerous, spreading, so as to form a large ovate 
head. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, and ovate-cordate, 
downy ; veins simple and parallel ; length from two to eight 
or ten inches. The floral pair or two longer-petioled, somewhat 
scarious, smoother, and more permanent than the others, Pe- 
-tioles round, villous, about a third of the length of their leaves, 
Stipules large, oblong, downy, and fringed with coloured 
glands round the margin. Thyrses terminal, and from the ex- 
terior axills, from oblong to sub-cylindric, very dense, short- 
peduncled, drooping. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, very 
fragrant, collected in numerous small fascicles, on very short, 
common peduncles. Bractes linear-lanceolate, one to each 
fascicle, smaller ones to the proper pedicels. Calyx about 
five-toothed, villous, Corol ; tube cylindric, more than twice 
the length of the calyx. Border five-parted, pitcher-shaped, 
length of the tube. Fi/aments short, inserted into the mouth 
of the tube. Anthers sagittate, hid in the pitchered. border. 
Germ two-celled. Style twice the length of the corol. Stig- 
ma globular. Capsule inferior, oblong, warty ; size of afilbert, _ 
two-celled, two-valved, opening fromthe apex ; partition con- 
pm and in this respect only does it differ from Cinchona, 
“Is this a gufficient reason to remove it from that family? In 
C. excelsa, the partition is also contrary, receptacle placed lon- 
gitudinally along the suture of the partition. Seeds several _ 
‘in each cell, imbricated upwards, surrounded with a broad, 
brown, reticulated, membranaceous wing, which is cloven be- 
low up the umbilicus, at the base of theseed. Perisperm thin, 
: white, and fleshy. Embryo erect, nearly as long ——— 
perm. pedo es re cpeaeets chnagte inferior,” 
Fiz 
as _ * PSATHURA. Juss. 
Calye superior, from four to six-toothed, Corol one-petal- 
Jed; tube short, and hairy within ; border from four to six- 
parted, Germ five-celled ; cells Sus edded ; attachment infe- 
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