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11. Guct tarda speciosa.-^ Largest leaves eleven inches long 

 and nine broad. Corolla with seven or eight segments. Sta- 

 mens 7 — 8. Ovary seven cells with a pendulous ovary in each. 

 Stigma eight rays. Pollen intermixed with numerous fibres 

 (pollen tubes?). 



a The flowers possess a delightful perfume." — C. Darwin. 



12. Corclia orientalis. — " The settlers have named this 

 Keeling-teak, because it furnishes them with excellent timber. 

 They have built themselves a vessel with it. A large tree, 

 abounding in some of the islands, very leafy, with scarlet 

 flowers ; but only a few blossoms were expanded at the time, 

 and they easily fell off/' — C. Darwin. 



13. Tournefortia argent ea. — Cyme ten inches long, bearing 

 both flower and fruit. Leaves oblong and obovate-oblong, 

 attenuated below. 



" A moderate sized tree, with small white flowers, very com- 

 mon." — C. Darwin. 



14. Dicliptera Burmanni, var. ? — Some of Nees von Esen- 

 beck's species (in Wallich's PI. As. Rar. vol. iii. pp. Ill, 112,) 

 run so closely together, that it is difficult to say whether he 

 would have referred these specimens to Burmanni or not. I 

 will here subjoin a full description of them, and it may serve 

 future observers in either extending the character of Burmanni, 

 or of reuniting with it some of the other forms now considered 

 to be distinct species, but formerly combined under the name 

 of Justicia chinensis. 



Radix annua ramosa. Caulis obsolete tetragonus. Folia inferiora 4 pol- 

 lices longa, 2\ lata, petiolo uncial i, subglabra strigosave, subtus pal- 

 lidiora, cum caule lineolata ; foliorum margines pilis minutis appressis 

 tecte, et basim versus aliquando piloso-ciliate. Axilla? plerumque flo- 

 rifene. Pedunculi 4 — 6 in quave axilla seriatim dispositi, 1 — 2 lineares, 

 majores interiores. Capitula 1 — 2-flora. Bractese primariae (sive um- 

 bellarum) plerumque subulato-cuspidate, pungentes, 6-lineares; ali- 

 quando inter umbellas inferiores eadem secundariarum forma, sed ma- 

 jores et foliacea?. Bracteee secundaria? (sive capitulorum) vel subspa- 

 thulatse vel obovate vel lanceolatie vel lato-ovate, basi pallidiori atte- 

 nuate, nervo medio valido, in apiccm cuspidato-mucronatum excurrente, 

 hirsute, pilis longis articulatis glandulisque interjectis ciliate. Bractex 

 tertiarice (sive florum bracteolte) binse setacese, calyce sublongiores. 

 Calyx subsessilis minutus 5-partitus, laciniis subsetaceis, bracteolisque 

 hirsutse et eiliate. Corolla 7-linearis, tubo pallido, limbo roseo bila- 



