MILLINGTONIA. MILLINGTONIACEÆ. 115 
Rumph’s figure obviously refers to this species, although the leaves are re- 
presented acuminated, but they are not said to be so in the description. We 
have the same species from Mauritius, and it seems to be very common all 
over the warmer parts of the East. We doubt if it, as well'as D. Jamai- 
censis, spathulata, and bialata, be not all mere varieties of D. viscosa, Linn. 
The proportion*of the fruit to the pedicel varies on the same specimen. 
ORDER XXXVII.—MILLINGTONIACEJE. 
Sepals 5, persistent, unequal, somewhat in a double series : æstivation 
imbricative. Petals 5, inserted on the margin of the receptacle, decidu- 
ous, alternating with the sepals, of two kinds ; three outer ones orbicular, 
entire, with an imbricative estivation ; two interior smaller, acutely bifid, 
resembling scales. Stamens 5, opposite to the petals, and slightly united 
to them at the very base: three exterior sterile, opposite to the larger 
petals ; two interior fertile, opposite to the bifid petals: filaments of the 
fertile stamens flat: anther-cells globose, dehiscing transversely, placed 
side by side on the inner side of the saucer-shaped connectivum. Disk 
flat, thin, hypogynous, free except at its point of attachment with the 
ovary and receptacle. Ovary ovate, 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cell, super- 
posed. Style simple, short, and thick. Stigma slightly 2-lobed. Fruit 
a 1-celled, 1-seeded drupe ; the dissepiment evanescent above, hardened 
and persistent at the base. Seed with a small cavity on one side, near 
the base. Albumen none or extremely thin. Embryo curved: cotyle- 
dons thin, foliaceous, folded: radicle curved, pointing to the hilum.— 
Trees. Leaves alternate, without stipules, entire or rarely pinnated. 
Inflorescence in panicles, terminal, or axillary near the extremity of the 
branches. Flowers small, inconspicuous, nearly sessile on very short pe- 
duncles that are arranged along the horizontal branches of the panicles. 
I. MILLINGTONIA. Roxb. 
Character that of the order. 
already noticed this genus at greater length in the Edin. New Phil. 
Journ. for J uly 1833, p. 178; at which time we had nd seen the similar remarks 
Porn by Jack (Mal. misc. 2. p- 32). The following is the character according to 
l Who look on the bifid petals and abortive stamens as nectaries : wed of 3 
“aves with 2 or more bracteoles. Petals3. Nectaries 5, 2 of them thin, scale-like, 
d; 3 thick and fleshy. Stamens2. Stylel. Fruit a l-seeded drupe. 
0. (1) M. pungens (Wall.!) leaves simple, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute 
base, quite pes pated on both sides, nerves beneath with a dd 
pubescence : panicle rigid, densely covered with a rusty pubescence ; rachis 
terete ; flowers on the ultimate branchlets of the panicle aggregated: calyx 
With 3 bracteoles ; sepals unequal, glandularly ciliated: outer petals round- 
aye concave ; inner ones cleft beyond the middle, equal to the filaments.— 
* & A.l in Ed. new ph. jour. l.c; Wight! cat. n. 945.——Neelgherries. 
391. (2) M. simplicifolia (Roxb. :) leaves simple, membranaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, much misi at the base, quite entire, glabrous on en m > 
nerves incurved and confluent near the margin: cle slender, | i: 
ent; rachis angled ; flowers on the ultimate ets of the panicle 
“omewhat distinct: calyx not bracteoled ; three outer sepals the larger, cili- 
j ; = k2 
