Alyxia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 699 
: recurved spikes, Corols with a short, woolly-mouthed tube. 
Stigma clavate, entire. 
A native of Chittagong, where it blossoms in April. 
5. W. odorata, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, polished, acuminate. Corymbs 
terminal. Ca/yzx five-toothed. 
Patugrooja, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 
genous, and grows to the size of a large shrub, or small tree. 
Flowering time the hot season, when the air is perfumed with 
the fragrance of its blossoms. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, acuminate, en- 
tire, polished, from four to eight inches long, by from one to 
two broad. Stipules triangular, Kc. as in the order. Corymbs 
terminal, trichotomous ; ramifications villous. Flowers nu- 
merous, middle-sized, white, and very fragrant. Bractes op- 
posite, sub-lanceolate, villous, Ca/yx poculiform, mouth five- 
toothed, Corol with the tube twice the length of the calyx ; 
border of five, spreading, linear-falcate seoments, which are 
longer than the tube. Filaments five, very short. Anthers 
subulate, nearly as long as the segments of the border of the 
capil ieee which they spread, Germ inferior, short, turbinate, 
two-celled, with three or four ovula in each, attached to the 
thickened middle of the partition. Style and stigma together 
longer than the corol, of a clavate-subulate shape. } 
ALYXIA. Banks. 
Calyx fiye-toothed. Corol hypocrateriform. Germ 0 
lobed ; lobes one-celled, few-seeded ; attachment interior. 
Berries two, pedicelled, one-seeded, Embryo tte ae 
echinate, lobed perisperm. 
ek A, stellata, R. 
" Shrubby, often twining. Leaves tern, and quatern, hee 
lanceolate, polished. Gers terminal, simple, recurved, 
