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towards the extremities of the branches axillary, opposite and springing from 
within the stipules, once or twice bifid, with the flowers unilateral and sessile 
along its branches. Bracteas small, solitary under each flower. 
The stipules having a broad base, inclose, as it were, the base of the peduncles: we 
presume this to be what was intended by Roxburgh in his Flora Indica, where it is 
printed ; peduncles opposite, with the stipules many times longer than the petioles, 
each ending, &c.: instead of; peduncles opposite, within the stipules, many times 
longer, &c, In his List, however, under No. 6217, Dr Wallich doubts if Roxburgh's 
plant be not the same as T'imoneus Rumphii, DC. 
1297. (1) E. glabra (W. & A.;) young shoots glabrous: stipules deciduous, 
shorter than the petioles: leaves oval-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, 
glabrous ; the midrib and nerves underneath sprinkled with hairs: drupe with 
8-12 nuts.— Wight ! cat. n. 1326. 
Obtained without any specified locality from Klein's herbarium. 
XIX. HAMILTONIA. Roxb. (not Muhl.).—Spermadictyon. Brown. 
Calyx-tube ovate: limb 5-partite ; segments subulate, persistent. Corolla 
infundibuliform, densely pubescent: tube long, straight: lobes 5, oblong. 
Stamens 5, inserted into the throat, included: anthers linear: stigma 5-cleft. 
Capsule erowned with the calyx, dehiscing at the apex, containing 5 nuts. 
Nuts triquetrous, 1-seeded. Seeds erect from the base of the nut, covered 
with a dry reticulated membrane. Albumen very thin. Embryo erect: ra- 
dicle oblong: cotyledons foliaceous, cordate.—Shrubs. Leaves lanceolate. 
shortly petioled. Stipules short, acute, broad at the base, adpressed. Flowers 
fascicled or umbelled. 
1298. (1) H. Mysorensis (W. & A.:) stems glabrous: leaves oblong- or 
oval-lanceolate, with a short rigid pubescence or nearly glabrous, retic ated 
on the under side: panicles corymbose, trichotomous, pubescent : flowers 
capitate: calyx-segments with a few distant subulate gland-tipped teeth on 
the margin.— Wight ! cat. n. 1825.——Mysore ; Heyne, 20th December 1801. 
XX. EPITHINIA. Jack. 
Calyx-tube somewhat cylindrical: limb membranaceous, cup-shaped, en- 
tire or inconspicuously 4-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform, glabrous exter- 
nally; tube 2-3 times longer than the limb of the calyx, hairy on the inside 
from the mouth to near the base: limb 4-partite, segments ovate, recurved : 
sstivation imbricative and a little twisted. Ovary 2-celled: ovules two in 
each cell, the one above the other ; the upper one pendulous from the apex 
ofthe cell. Stamens 4, exserted: anthers linear, pointed. Style filiform, 
glabrous, exserted, as long as the corolla. Stigma bifid ; divisions linear, 
spreading. Fruit drupaceous, oblong-clavate, a little compressed, marked 
with 8 longitudinal furrows, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb, con- 
taining two 1-celled (or by cohesion one 2-celled) woody hard long nuts. 
Seeds 2 in each cell (the one above the other), or solitary from abortion, li- 
near-oblong. Embryo large in a thinnish fleshy albumen: cotyledons ob- 
long, flattish: radicle superior.—Shrubby, glabrous, exuding gum from the 
extremities of the young shoots. Stipules adpressed, connate, sheathing, 
truncated. Leaves petioled, oboyate, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, with nerves 
and veins inconspicuous. Cymes a little above the axils, on short horizontal 
peduncles, bifid, shorter than the petioles. Flowers white. 
In some few trivial points our description differs from that given by Jack, but we 
