112 Mr. Lindley on a New Genus of Plants^ 



Kunth's combination of the Sterculiacese of Ventenat with the 

 Byttneriaceae of Mr. Brown ; and, in fact, breaking down every 

 barrier between them. )/,^Ujilci, 



There are many other points that will suggest themselves to 

 the Botanist, in which this plant is highly worthy of considera- 

 tion, but for the present it wall be enough to give the botanical 

 characters with which it may stand recorded. It is named in 

 honour of John Reeves, Esq., now resident at Canton, to whom 

 we are indebted for our knowledge of it, from whose unwearied 

 exertions in the cause of science the botany of China has re* 

 ceived material assistance, and to whom our gardens are in- 

 debted for many of the fairest ornaments they contain. 



REEVESIA. 



Ord. Nat. Byttneriaceje ; Sterculiam {Erythr opsin) inter et 

 Pterospermum. 



Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus, sestivatione imbricata, pube stellatii 

 tomentosus, bracteolatus. Petala 5, hypogyna, unguiculata, aestivatione 

 convoliita, callo inter unguem et laminam. Stamina in toro longo fili- 

 formi insidentia. Antherse 15, sessiles, in cyatho capituliformi, apice 

 tantum pervio, obsolete 5-dentato connatae, extrorsae, bilociilares, loculis 

 divaricatis intricatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollen sphsericiim 

 glabrum. Ovarium sessile, intra cyathum antheriferum, ovatum, 

 glabrura, 5-angulare, 5 -locnlare, loculis dispermis. Ovula margini locu- 

 lorum unum super alterum affixa, superiore basi concavo in inferiorem 

 incumbente. Stigma 5-lobum, simplicissimum, sessile. Capsula stipi- 

 tata, lignosa, obovata, 5-angularis, 5-loGularis, loculicido 5-valvis, axi 



nullo. Semina cuique loculo duo basi alata. Arbor (Chinse) folii? 



alternis exstipulatis, racemis terminalibus compositis, floribus albis. 



1 . Reevesia thyrsoidea. 



Habitat in China (v. s. sp. in Herb, et iconera in Biblidtheca Soc. 

 Hort.) 



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