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'i^hort-petioled, elliptic-obovate, nearly obtuse, acute at the base, 

 very entire, very smooth, thick, with the midrib flattened, and 

 a few inconspicuous nerves. Stipules interpetiolar, hnear. 

 Flowers axillary, sessile, generally aggregated on a double gem- 

 maceojss knob. Calyx superior, very short, entire. Corolla, 

 white, tubular ; limb four-cleft ; faux villous. Stamens alternate 

 with the segments of the corolla ; filaments scarce any. Ovary 

 crowned with a prominent umbilicate disk, disporous. Style 

 longer than the tube. Stigma of two revolute linear thick lobes. 

 Berry of a semipellucid reddish-yellow colour, ovate-oblong, 

 two-seeded. Seeds oblong, contained in a. tough integument, 

 with the embryo in the axis of the albumen.'" 



" I am not aware that these two plants have been described 

 by any botanist since the time of Rumphius, or that any conjec- 

 ture has been made regarding their place and family from his 

 figure or description. From their common habit as parasites, I 

 should have been much incUned to place them under one genus ; 

 but the different number of seeds in each, supported by the differ- 

 ence of a simple and bifid stigma, seems to oppose this, while 

 the distinction is further confirmed by the different disposition 

 and insertion of the leaves, which in Hydnophytum are arranged 

 precisely as usual in the KubiacecE, but in Myrmecodia are 

 crowded round the thick fleshy branches in such a manner, that 

 .their being really opposite is not immediately apparent, while 

 their insertion on their broad peltate bases is further peculiar." 



LASIANTHUS. 



Rubiacea. Juss. 



Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis linearibus. Corolla infundibulifor- 

 mis, pilosa. Stamina 4. Stigmata 4, linearia, crassa. Bacca, 

 tetrapyrena. 



SuffruticeSyJioribus axilhribits, bracteis oppositis, baccis cyaneism 



Lasianthus cyanocarpus. 



Villosus, bracteis magnis cordatis. Found at Tappaaooly 

 on the west coast of Sumatra, 



Lasianthus attenuatus. 



Villosus, foliis supra glabris, bracteis lanceolatis. Found 

 in the interior of Bencoolen. . , 



HELOSPORA. 



Tetrandria Monogynia, Linn, Rubiacecd. Juss. 



. Calyx 4-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo 4-partito. Sta- 

 mina inclusa. Stylus 4-sulcus, apice 4-fidus. Stigmata quatuor. 

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