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parts of these Islands, and particularly at Acheen, which has 

 been figured in Andrews' Botanical Repository, under the 

 name of C. pyramidale. It is a large showy plant. A still 

 more beautiful species, and perhaps the most elegant of the 

 whole genus, is the C. nutans, so named by my friend Dr. 

 Wallich, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 

 who received it from the north-eastern frontier of Bengal. 

 I found it not uncommonly at Pulo Penang, and this is not 

 the only instance in which I have had occasion to observe 

 a coincidence between the plants of these distant countries. 

 This species is characterized as follows : 

 C. nutans ; [Wall.) foliis lanceolatis acuminatis glabris, pani- 



culis longissimis terminalibus nutantibus, pedunculis re- 



motis divaricatis paucifloris. 



The panicles or racemes hang gracefully from the extre- 

 mity of the branches ; the flowers are white, not numerous ; 

 the peduncles, or primary divisions of the panicle, being 

 remote, opposite, divaricated, short, and seldom bearing more 

 than 3 flowers. It is called Unting-unting by the Malays. 



(This plant I find to be distinct from the Sylhet species, and 

 call it C. Jackiana, I have a third species, with nodding pan- 

 icles, (C penduliflorum,) which is a native of Tavoy. — Wall.) 



GMELINA VILLOSA. Boxb. 



G. villosa ; spinosa, foliis rhomboideis subtus villosis, racemis 

 terminalibus, bracteis magnis acuminatis, drupis sphaericis 

 dispermis. 



Radix Deiparse. Humph. Amb. v. 2. p. 124. t, 39. Kayo- 

 Briang. 



Native of Sumatra, &c. — Arborescent. Leaves opposite, 

 broadly ovate, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, rather obtuse, 

 entire, smooth above, villous beneath as well as the petioles 

 and branchlets. Racemes terminal. Bracteas lai-ge, ovate, 

 acuminate. Calyx obliquely 4-toothed, marked externally 

 with 6 green scutellae or pustules. Corolla yellow, ventricose. 

 Anthers 2-lobed. Ovary 4-spermous. Drupe with a 2-seeded 

 nut. 



