GARDNER ON MOURIRIA, &c. 21 
Has. Nepal. 
147. H. Haplophynemum.—Leskea microphylla, Hook. in 
Wall. Cat.n.7638.— Haplophynemum microphyllum. Sine. 
Suppl. t. 271. 
Has. Nepal. 
148. H. nervosum ( Hook. Mss.) ; caule debili vage bipin- 
nato, foliis cordato-subulatis crassis papillosis serrulatis'paten- 
tibus squarrosis, nervo incrassato attingente, capsula cernua 
ovata.— Hook. Ic. Plant. t. XXIV. fig. 3. a, plant, nat. size; 
b, leaves ; c, capsule :—magnified. 
Haz. Nepal. 
1I.— On the establishment of the genus Mouriria, Juss., as the 
type of a new Natural Orders together with notes and observa- 
tions on the structure of the genera Lygodisodea, Cassytha, 
and Carludovica. By Mr GEeoncE GARDNER, Surgeon. 
[With 3 Plates.] 
Boranists seem to be uncertain as to what Natural Order the 
genus Mouriria ought to be placed in, although it is agreed 
that its characters, so far as hitherto known, give it an inter- 
mediate station between Myrtacee and Melastomacee. Such, 
according to De Candolle, is the opinion of Brown and 
Meyer; and De Candolle himself places itin Memecylee, pro- 
visionally, from his being unacquainted with the structure of 
the seeds. Having recently found in one of my excursions 
in this neighbourhood a species* of the genus in flower and 
, With seeds sufficiently matured to ascertain their structure, 
I am inclined to consider it, from reasons shortly to be given, 
as the type of a new Natural Order; and with the assistance of 
De Candolle’s generic description, I have drawn up the 
following character of the tribe. 
* This appears to be à new species, so far as my necessarily limited library 
enables me to judge. It differs from all those described in De Candolle's 
Prodromus, in having obtuse apiculate leaves, with the vence arcuate ae 
forming a well marked marginal vein. Like M. cauliflora, DC., its 
flowers are produced from the trunk and branches. It is M. Pusá, Gard. COME. 
. MSS. and No. 1608 of the Collections from the Province of Ceara. - hà 
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