386 Analysei of Books. [Nov. 



Bacca calyce coronata, polysperma, seminibus duplici serie 

 cruciatim dispositis, nidulantibus, linearibus, parum curvis. 

 Arborescens, glabra, pedunculis axillaribus utii/ioris, astivatione 



valvata, 



Helospora flavescens. 



Native of Sumatra. 



" The disposition of the seeds in this genus is very peculiar, 

 and forms a good distinctive character." 



GLAPHYRIA. 



Icosandiia Monogyn 'a, N. O. Mi/rtacecc, 

 Calyx superus, quinque-fidus. Coro//a pentapetala. Bacca 

 quinque-locularis, polysperma ; singuli loculi semina duplici 

 ordine axi aflixa. 



Arbuscul^f foliis alternis, Jloribus axillaribus, 



Glaphyria nitida. 



Foliis obovatis obtusis. Found on the summit of Gunong 

 Bunko, or the Sugarloaf Mountain, in the interior of Bencoolen. 



" This is a very handsome shrub, having much the habit and 

 fohage of the common Myrtle, but the leaves are smaller and 

 firmer. Its character and appearance are alpine, and it is only 

 met with at high elevations ; 1 found it on the summit of the 

 Sugarloaf, and I am informed that it is almost the only shrub 

 met with towards the top of the volcanic cone of Gunong Dempo 

 in Passumah, where it is called Kayo Umur fanjang, or the Tree 

 of long Life, probably from its maintaining itself at elevations 

 where the other denizens of the forest have ceased to exist. 

 At Bencoolen an infusion of the leaves is drunk as a substitute 

 for tea ; and it is known to the natives by the name of the Tea 

 Plant/* 



Glaphyria sericea. 



Foliis lanceolatis acuminatis. Found on Pulo Penang, an 

 island on the western coast of Sumatra. 



A plate accompanies this paper, showing the parts of fructifi- 

 cation and the fruit, of Lansium domesticum, Leuconotis anceps, 

 and Helospora Jlavesceris, 



VIII. Description of the Cermatia longicornis and of three new 

 Insects from NepauL By Major-General Thomas Hardwicke, 

 FRS. and LS. &c. 



Cermatia longicornis, 



Scolopendra longicornis. Fab. Ent. Syst, ii. 390. Scuti- 



gera longicornis. Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. vol. vii. 

 p. 89. Scutigera lineata ? Latr. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xxx. 

 p. 446. 



" Body, when viewed beneath, having sixteen segments, 



