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lar villous lines from the incisions of the lower lip ; a villous 

 ring within the tube immediately below the insertion of the 

 stamina. Stamina four, all fertile, didynamous, shorter 

 than the corolla ; the opposite anthers connected together. 

 Style one. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule? inclosed in the 

 persistent calyx, ovate, two-celled ; cells divided by the 

 revolute lobes of the dissepiments. Seeds naked, roundish, 

 foveolate. 

 Obs. The parietes of the capsule are very thin, and I have not 

 yet been able to observe exactly their dehiscence. 



2. LOXONIA HIRSUTA. 



L. hirsuta, foliis semiovatis latis, pedunculis 2 — 4-fidis, floribus 



racemosis. 

 Native of Sumatra, interior of Bencoolen. 



Stem recurving, somewhat flexuose, hirsute. Leaves opposite, 

 sub-bifarious, very short-petioled, the one small and semi- 

 cordate, the other semi-ovate, broad, acuminate, slightly 

 serrated, rugose, hirsute on both sides ; about five inches 

 long and two or two and a half broad. Pedmicles from the 

 axils of the small leaves, looking backwards, dividing into 

 from two to four unilateral racemes, shorter than the leaves. 

 Calyx five-parted. Corolla bilabiate, five-lobed. Stamina 

 four fertile, didynamous. Anthers with transverse lobes. 

 Style simple. Stigma obtusely two-lobed. Ovary two-celled, 



* polysporous, the lobes of the dissepiments revolute and 

 seed-bearing. 



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