648 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Vareca, 
tent. Bark of the old parts smooth, and ash-coloured ; of the 
young shoots with a little, short, ferruginous pubescence, 
Leaves alternate, about the end of the branchlet, short-peti- 
oled, lanceolar, entire, waved, acute, smooth, and glossy, 
above; from four to twelve inches long, and from one to four 
broad. Stipules none. Peduneles axillary, solitary, about 
an inch long, many-flowered, villous. lowers middle- 
sized, white, inodorous, pedicelled. Bractes small, cadu-. 
cous.. Calyx one-leaved, five-toothed, villous, caducous, 
Petals five, linear-oblong, recurved, many times longer than 
the calyx. Filaments five, inserted on the receptacle, short- 
er than the germ, and pressing uponit, Anthers sagittate. 
Germ superior, oblong, torulose, villous, one-celled, with _ 
many ovula, attached to two or three parietal receptacles. 
Style short. Stigma pretty large, two or three-lobed. 
2. V. lanceolata, R. . nae ist 
Leaves alternate, lanceolar. Flowers in axillary fascicles; 
An erect, shrubby plant, a native of Pulo Pinang. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate; 
veins numerous, simple and parallel ; smooth on both sides. 
Stipules within the leaves, lanceolate, chaffy. Flowers small, 
numerous, collected onshort-peduncled, axillary, compound: 
corymbs, pale yellow. Calyx five-leaved ; /eaflets oval, con- 
cave, permanent, Petals five, lanceolate, ecniing g, perma-— 
nent, Filaments five, shorter than the petals, incurved, unit- 
ed at the base into a ring round the lower half of the germ. 
Anthers arrow-shaped, erect. Germ superior, ovate, hairy. 
Sty/e longer than the stamens, hairy. Stigma simple. Cap- 
sules three-lobed, leathery, one-celled, evalvular, Seeds se- 
veral, affixed to three, vertical, parietal receptacles, on the in- _ 
side of the middle of the lobes of the capsules, Boopgttt 
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bb; Leaves broad tanceoar, erenate, Flowers ile 
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