JAVA. 1752. 57 



Quettdrda fpeciofa, a ramofe tree with odo- 

 riferous flowers. The calyx is cylindrical, with 

 an almoft entire margin : the corolla is mono- 

 petalous : the tube cylindrical, longer than the 

 calyx : the limbus is divided into feven oblong 

 lacinice: feven fhort filaments : the antherce 

 are longer than the filaments, and of equal 

 thicknefs : the germen is almoft round : the 

 Jlylus is filiform, longer than the Jlamina : the 

 Jl'igma is Ihaped almoft like an egg. The fruit 

 Is nearly round, and contains many nuts : the 

 branches of the tree are quadrangular, with 

 dots, and horfe-fhoe-like fpots. 



Lobelia Plumierii is a little tree which flood 

 on the fhore, and had the following characters : 

 the calyx is very fhort, quinquefid : the fegments 

 of equal breadih, and equidiftant from each 

 other : the corolla is monopetalous, on one 

 lide fplit open down to the bottom, four times 

 longer than the calyx : the tube is cylindrical, 

 hairy in the infide, longer than the limbus, 

 hiant on one fide : the limbus is quinquefid, 

 hairy, with lanceolated lacinia, which are 

 curled up on the margin ; the middlemoft is 

 the thickeft : the fi\ r e filaments are filiform, 

 faftened to the receptaculu?n y and of the 

 length of the fijiilhmi : the anthera are ob- 

 long, 



