698 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Bradleia, 
longer, in the male oblong, in the female tapering from the 
base, Filaments very short. Anthers from four to six-lobed, 
linear. FEMALE FLOWERS sessile. Germ ovate, six-celled, 
with two ovula in each, attached to the thick axis, Style short 
and thick. Stigma six-lobed ; lobes pointed and incurved, 
Capsule much depressed, turnip-shaped, with a concave 
apex and base, grooved, six-celled, twelve-valved. Valves 
composed of two distinct coats ; the exterior one smooth, ra- 
ther spongy and olive-coloured; the interior one like hard 
thin parchment, these open from the base, warp, and soon 
drop off, leaving the red seed attached to the clavate recepta- 
cle or axis. Seeds two in each cell, attached to the clavate 
axis, a full half of each on the side where two meet is filled 
with a soft yellow pulp when recent, which on drying disap- 
pears, and leaves a vacuum, coloured by the two exterior in- 
teguments almost exactly as in Bradleia Sinica, (Gert. Sem. 
ii. 127. t. 109.) which I might have supposed this to be, had 
I not now before me K6nig’s very excellent description and 
figure of that species in the first volume of his Annals of Bo- 
tany, p. 356. pl. 7. f.4. . Integuments three ; the exterior one 
red, polished and glossy ; the second one like parchment ; and 
the interior one thin and brown, Perisperm soft completely 
covering the embryo. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons oblique- 
ly ovate, cordate, thin, adicle superior, with its apex at 
the umbilicus, 
3. B. Seiisatior: R. 
- ‘Arboreous. . Leaves: iene, oblong, entire, . smooth. 
Flowers: axillary, pedicelled. Style none. Stigma perfo- 
rated with a many-ribbed ray, Capsule turbinate. ) 
A native of the Moluccas, agreeing well with the descrip- 
tion of the Agyneja impuber in the Mantissa, except that the 
peduncles and_ the little roundish bractes round their.inser- 
tions are smooth, 
_4, B. pubera. R. af 
All the tender parts more or Ete ee poe ect 
