180 Messrs Wight and Arnott on some New or 



ner and De CandoUe ; but imperfect as our specimen is, we do 

 not think that it can be actually united to that genus. 



Gen. 7. SPH^ROCARYA, WalL 



Unn, Spst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Ord. Nat. SANTALACE^ ? R. Br. 



Perxanthii tubus clavatus, ovario adhserens, limbus S-partitus. Petala nulla. 

 GlanduleB biseriales ; 6 exteriores petaloideae, fauci caljcis insertae, sta- 

 minibus alternantes : 5 interiores minutissimae, ciliatae, inter stamina et 

 perianthii lacinias. Stamina 5 ; filamenta brevia, glabra, ad basin pe- 

 rianthii lacinias inserta, iisdemque opposita : antherce bUoculares. Stylus 

 simplex. Stigma subbilobum. Drupa pyriformis, monosperma. Albu- 

 men magnum carnosum ; Embryo brevis, in apice albuminis : radicula 

 supera — Arbores. Folia alternantia, Integra, penninervia. Flores race- 

 most : pedicellis brevibus, crassis, ebracteolatis. 



1. S. eduHs (WalL); foliis subtus ad nervos pilosis — S. edulis, Wall, in 

 Roxb. et Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 371. ; Spr. Syst. Veg. Supp. p. 101. ; G. Don, in 

 Mill. Diet. 2. p. 27. 



Hab. In sylvis Nepalensibus, in valle seque ac in montibus ; Clariss. 

 Wallich. 



2. S. Wallichiana (Nob.) ; foliis subtus glaberrimis S. Wallichiana, Wight 



et Am. in Prodr. Fl. Penins. Or. (ined.) ; Wight, Cat. N. 948. 



Hab. In dumetis montium provincise Madurse. 



We have not had it in our power to examine the structure of 

 the ovarium of this genus. Dr Wallich states that " the ovu- 

 lum is erect, supported by a fleshy subdiaphanous spirally 

 twisted cord, which rises from the bottom of the ovary, and is 

 conducted into the oblong cell by means of a proper tube or ca- 

 nal,*" which is slightly at variance with the natural order San- 

 talacese. 



Gen. 8. BRAGANTIA, Lour. 



Linn, Syst. GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



Ord. Nat. ARISTOLOCHI^, Juss. 



Perianthium tube globoso, limbo aequaliter 3-fido. Filamenta nulla. An- 

 therce 6-9, circa stylum medium, seu ejus rudimentum insertae, extror- 

 sum dehiscentes. Fru^tus siliquaeformis, indehiscens, plurilocularis, po- 

 lyspermus. — Frutices erecti, ramosi. Folia lanceolata, integerrima, venosa, 

 magna, alterna. Flores fusco-rubri : rucemi, breves, pauciflori, axillares. 



1. "R. racemosa (Loun); hermaphrodita ; foliis late lanceolatis ; perianthii 

 tubo 10-sulcato, limbi laciniis obtusis; antheris 6, omnibus juxtapositis ; stig- 

 matibus in discum concavum integrum coalitis. — B. racemosa, Lour. Fl. Coch. 

 (ed. Willd.) 2. p. 645. ; Spr. Syst. 3. p. 755. 



Hab. In montis Cochinchinae. 



2. B. tcmentosa (Blum.) ; hermaphrodita ; foliis ovali-oblongis, coriaceis, 

 supra glabris, subtus reticulatis, arachnoideo-tomentosis ; racemis lateralibus, 

 cemuis, bracteatis, tomentosis ; antheris 6 ; stylo subquadrifido, stigmatibus 



