Hypericum. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, 399 
5, M. rigida, Roxb, 
Leaves alternate, approximate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 
rigid, pungent-mucronate, nerveless, but slightly striated, 
spikes panicled, lowers tern. 
A native of the Molucca Islands. To what size it grows 
I cannot say. 
Leaves approximate, scattered, sessile, straight, linear-lan- 
ceolate, rigid, very smooth nevertheless, but slightly striated 
lengthways, sharp pungent-pointed, about three fourths of 
an inch long, by one line in breadth. Spikes termimal, cy- 
lindric, five or six of them forming the panicle, ending in a 
small bud, which in due time protrudes a branchlet beyond 
them, and by the time the seeds are ripe, the capsules are la- 
teral. They are tasteless. Calyx smooth, border of five large, 
rounded segments, Petals five, sub-sessile, round. Filaments 
about twenty-five, much longer than the coro], united at the 
base into five bodies. Germ smooth. Style rather shorter than 
the stamens, Stigma simple. 
_ DURIO. Sckreb. gen. N. 1921. 
Calyx pails five-toothed. Corol five or six-petalled. 
Stamina in five bodies, Style single. Pome superior, five- 
celled. 
_ D. Zibethinus, Willd. iii, 1434, Konig in Trans. of Linn, | 
Soe, vii. p. 266. 
Dario. Rumph. Amb, i. t. 29. 
A native of the Malay Islands. The fleshy aril which en- 
velopes the seed of this large fruit, like that of the Jack, is the 
part eaten ; but not so universally admired, for its strong, by 
some thought very offensive, smell. 
HYPERICUM. Schreb. gen. N.1224. 
Calyx five-leaved. Petals five. Filaments many, _— 
ed into five sets, 
