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2. BHESA, Ham. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Ord. Nat. CELASTRINEiE, Brown. 



Calyx 5-fi(lus; segmentis recurvis. Petala 5, calycis lobis alternantia, sub 

 niargine tori inserta, recurva. Torus discoideus, carnosus, tubo calycis 

 arete adnatus, 5-lobatus. Stamina 5, petalis torique lobis alternantia, 

 niargine tori inserta. Ovarium sessile vel basi toro paullulum immer- 

 sum, globosum, inferne glabrum, apice lanugine obtectum, 2-loculare. 

 Ovnla ad basin cujusque loculi duo, erecta. Styli duo, filiformes, distantes, 



* flexuosi. A7j^fnato parva, capitata. 



sfrutices vel arbores. Folia exstipulata^ altema^ glabra, petiolata, elliptico'ohlonga, 

 integerrima^ penninervia, veriis ^ansversis strusjfbrmibus creberrimis pulchre no- 

 tata. Flores spicati, parvi,'' OV: ' I .-*;i.>*xj« 4- 



1. B. Moja, Ham. — Spicis axiUaribus, simplicibus, Herb. Ham. N. 788* 



2. B. paniculata, Am. ; spicis ramosis, paniculam terminalem efformanti- 

 bus. 



Hab. In Jnsula " Pri;ic$. of Wales Island," dicta. 



'.i :in-L; lu.a ,....:•.'; ■ji\' i.: uv. > J, ...I J;;iJu.i o. 



Tfeie firirt bf the^e species t hav^* oftl^ seefi in Hamilton's Her- 

 barium, now belonging to the University of Edinburgh : corres- 

 ponding specimens were deposited at the India House Mu- 

 seum ; but I have not been able to discover any reference to it 

 in Dr Wallich's List. The other I received from my friend Dr 

 Hooker. At first I felt inchned to consider this genus as the 

 same with Moacurra, of which, although specimens have been 

 distributed by Dr Wallich {Celastrus acuminata^ Wall. List 

 N. 4342^ pp. 152j 250), I have not been so fortunate as see any, 

 and therefore must trust to the accuracy of Roxburgh's descrip- 

 tion, from which it appears that in it the disk or torus is differ- 

 ent from that of Bhesa, and the ovules are pendulous from the 

 apex of each cell. 



3. SCHUMACHERIA, Vahl {non Sjyreng.) 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



OrcL Nat. DILLENIACE.E, DC. 



(Charactere reformata) 



Sepala 5, persistentia, extus intusque adprcsse sericeo-villosa ; 2 exteriora, 

 3 intenora, aestivatio imbricativa. Petala 5, decidua, hypogyna, calycem 

 suboequantia, sepalis alternantia; 2 niargine crispula: aestivatio imbrica- 

 tiva. Stamina hypogyna, numerosa, unilateralia, pluri-serialia, mona- 

 delplia, omnia fertiliao FUamenta brevia, basi in anthophorum crassiuscu- 

 lum complanatum coalita. Antherce lineares, elongatae, biloculares ; con- 

 nectivum in mucronulum productum. Torus nullus. Ovaria 3, libera, 

 villosa, l-locularia, 1-styla, 1-ovulata. Ovulum e basi loculi adscendens, 

 arillatum. Styli simplices, terminales, filiformes, glabri, per xestivationem 

 staminibus incumbentes. Stigmata simplicia. 



