18 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Embelia (including therein Choripetalum, A.DC., which only dif- 
fers by a 4-parted flower) is remarkable among Myrsinee for its poly- 
petalous corolla, its very small placenta and few ovules; by the first of 
these characters it is anomalous as a member of a monopetalous Order. 
In Myrsine, however, though the corolla is more usually shortly 
rotate, it is sometimes dialipetalous, and in several of its species the 
ovules are few ; thus removing some of the chief distinctive characters 
of Embelia itself. 
Fig. 1, branch in flower; natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; the same after removing 
petals and stamens; 4, calyx laid open, seen from within; 5, petal and stamen; 6. 
ovary ; 7, the same, cut open longitudinally ; 8, cross section of ovary ; magnified. 
128. HETEROPYXIS NATALENSIS, Harv. (Heteropywidec.) 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx cyathiformis, 5-dentatus, eestivatione vix imbri- 
eatus. Petala 5, ovata, calycis fauce inserta, subsessilia, pellucido- 
punctata. Discus perigynus, calycis tubum tegens, tenuis. Stamina 5, 
cum petalis inserta, et iisdem opposita; filamenta subulata; anthers 
biloculares, versatiles, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovariwm liberum, 2-vel 
rarissime 3-loculare ; ovula numerosa, semiamphitropa, in placentis car- 
nosulis dissepimento adnatis; stylus cylindricus: stigma obtusum. 
Fructus... .? 
H. Natalensis, Marv. in Herb. T. C.D. 
Haxs.—Port Natal, Gueinzius! Nototi, W. T. Gerrard! No. 1511. Umeomas, 
M, J. K‘Ken! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A low tree, glabrous in all parts. Leaves alternate, shortly 
petiolate, tapering to both extremities, acuminate, quite entire, reticu- 
lately veined, pellucid-dotted, paler on the under surface. 2 Jowers small, 
‘dull white, fragrant” (G. § M‘K.), in terminal or axillary panicles, 
pedicellate ; the pedicels minutely bracteate at base. Calyx cup-shaped, 
5-toothed, the teeth bluntly deltoid, subvalvate in estivation. Petals 
inserted in the throat of the calyx, whose tube is lined with a thin ex- 
pansion of the disc, alternate with the segments, ovate, pellucid dotted. 
Stamens opposite the petals, and inserted with them ; filament short; 
anther versatile. Ovary free, very generally 2, very rarely 3-celled, 
with many ovules in each cell, affixed to axile placenta. Style short; 
stigma simple. rut unknown. 
This highly curious new genus, which I am unable to refer defini- 
tively to any established Natural Order, scems, in its floral characters, 
to combine some of the prominent features of two widely-separated 
Orders, namely, Myrsinee and Lythrariee ; and also to present, though 
in a much less degree, some of the characters of Rhamnea. 
At first I felt disposed to consider it as an anomalous genus of Myr- 
sine@, with which Order it agrees in habit, besides having the pellucid 
dots found in several species, and the stronger character of the stamens 
opposing the petals. Nor do the polypetalous flowers, nor the perigy- 
nous insertion of petals and stamens, offer an obstacle to such relation- 
