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Tn look not unlike O. Borbonica, but distinct. Leaves very variable in size, the largest, figured by 
Forster, 8-12 inches long and from 4 to 5 inches broad; the smallest, figured by Labillardiére, 2 inches 
long and about an inch broad. I cannot distinguish Labillardiére’s O. elliptica from Forster’s Cerbera 
parviflora, and have therefore no hesitation in uniting them. Asa Gray remarks, * To the lamented Prof. 
Henslow’s account may be added, that the ovaries are not really united except at their apices, that the 
ovules are eight, four on each margin of the suture, amphitropous; the mieropyle superior.” And of A. 
Sandwichensis, DC., with which Forster’s plant has been confounded, he writes, “ Flowerbuds almost an 
inch long; the narrow lobes of the corolla rather longer than the tube, which is glabrous within. Ovules 
3 or 4 in each ovary. Seeds peltate on each face of the nearly complete false partition, exalbuminous? Ra- 
dicle inferior.” I add Solander’s detailed description of his Alyxia sp., taken from his mss. Flora :—“ Frutex 
v. arbor parva, tota glabra lactescens. Rami teretes, lete virides, leves. Folia 3- et 4-terna, lineari-lanceolata, 
acuminata, basi in petiolum brevem attenuata, glaberrima: nitida, plana, compacta, venosa; venis tenuis- 
simis, parallelis, oo, fere ad rectangulum e rachi exeuntibus venulisque obsolete reticulata, spithamea et 
dodrantalia, unam unciam lata. Petioli breves, vix semiunciales. Flores cymosi; cyma composita, sub- 
dichotoma, pedunculata. Pedunculi axillares (e supremis axillis), foliis 2- et 3-plo breviores. S/ipule 
[.Bractee | opposite, ovate, acute, brevissime, ad basin pedicellorum. Calyx 1-phyllus, persistens, cyathi- 
formis, brevis (vix sesquilinearis), angulatus, 5-dentatus: dentibus ovatis, obtusis, conniventibus ; unde basis 
tubi corolle valde angustata. Corolla 1-petala, hypocrateriformibus. Tubus cylindraceus, rectus, paulo 
supra medium pro antheris parum ventricosus, interne glaber, crassitie peune columbine, semuncialis, e 
virescenti-albidus. Faua nuda. Limbus patens, 5-partitus. Lacinie oblique, oblongo-lineares, obtusi- 
uscule, albæ, longitudine tubi. Filamenta 5, brevia, paulo infra medium tubo inserta. Anthere oblonge, 
acuminate, erectæ, intra faucem corolle incluse. Germina 2, supera, oblonga, obtusa, intus plana, extus 
convexa. Styli 2, filiformes, tubo breviores. Stigma 1, incrassatum, ovato-oblongum, apice subulatum, 
non nisi vi bipartibile. Drupe 2 (omnino uti folliculi in reliquis contortis), sessiles, ovali-oblonge, parum 
compress, glabra, magnitudine articuli digiti intermedii, horizontaliter divaricate. Substantia fungosa, 
sicca. Nua oblonga, dura, crassissima, 2-locularis; dissepimento membranaceo; loculo altero sspe crasso. 
Nuclei solitarii, ovati, compressi, intus plani, extus convexi.” 
VI. Tabernzmontana, Plum. Nov. Gen: p. 18; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 361. Calyx 5-par- 
titus v. -fidus, lobis estivatione 5-cunciali, 2 exterioribus ; glandulis linearibus, 4-7, basi cujusque lobi 
v. paulo supra basim adfixis, verticillatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo inferne medio v. syperne, 
inflato, ssepius medio angustiore, exappendiculato, fauce nuda, raro glandulosa, lobis obtusis, zestiva- 
tione marginibus dextrorsum convolutis apiceque replicatis. Stamina parte inflata tubi corollze inserta ; 
filamentis brevissimis aut nullis; antheris sepius sagittatis, longe acuminatis, rarius linearibus 
plerumque inclusis. Nectarium nullum. Ovaria 2, adpressa, glabra. Stylus 1, basi interdum 
prope ovaria duplex, glaber. Stigma antheris proximum, basi plerumque annulatum, medio cylin- 
draceum v. tuberculis auctum, apice 2-lobum (an raro simplex?). Fructus 2 v. abortu solitarii, 
lineari-oblongi, oblongi, v. subglobosi, plus minus carnosi, pulposi, divaricati, nervis longitudinalibus 
paucis. Ovula co, amphitropa. Semina pauca v. plurima, intra pulpam cellulosam nidulantia, quasi 
arillo colorato tecta? obovoidea, pressione mutua angulata; hilo depresso sulcato longitudinali ; 
testa longitudinaliter striata; albumine carnoso, cotyledonibus foliaceis apice curvatis, radiculam 
rectam zequantibus, hilo parallelis, radicula supera, cylindrica.—Arbores v. frutices, intertropicales, 
ramis sepius dichotomis; foliis oppositis, altero sepe minore, integris, plerumque glabris, petiolis 
brevibus in stipulas falsas intrapetiolares, basi expansis v. connatis, glandulis preterea axillaribus, 
et nune lateralibus; cymis axillaribus, plerumque geminis apice ramulorum ; floribus albis v. luteis.— - 
Pandaca, Pet. Thouars, Gen. Nov. Mad. n. 33. Rejoua, Gaud. Freyc. p. 450. t. 61. Reichardia, 
Deunst. zum Hart. Mal. 6. n. 47. - 
1. T. orientalis, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 468, non Don; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 371; glabra; 
foliis oppositis, inzequalibus, elliptico-lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis ; pedunculis ex dichotomiis ra- 
morum geminis erectis; dichotomiis 3-5-floris; pedicellis erectis calyce duplo triplove longioribus, 
lobis calycinis ovato-acutis; tubo corollz (albæ) angusto cylindraceo, laciniis oblongis obtusis sub- 
longiore; folliculis ellipticis, obtusis.—7. Cumingiana, DC. Prodr. 1l. c. p. 873. T. Vitiensis, Seem. 
in Bonpl. vol. ix. p. 207. T. citrifolia, Forst. Prodr. n. 124; non Linn.; Parkinson, Drawings of 
