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Native of Pulo Penang. — A climbing shrubs with 4-sided, 

 somewhat pilose branches. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ob- 

 long-ovate, subcordate at the base, acuminate, (sometimes 

 with a retuse acumen,) very entire, smooth. Petioles short, 

 pilose. Fascicles G-T-flowered, peduncled, disposed in pani- 

 cles at the extremity of the branches, and in the upper axils. 

 Involucres consisting of 5-6, oblong, obtuse, membranace- 

 ous, reticulated leaflets^ which are longer than the sessile 

 flowers. Calyx campanulate, 5-plicate, 5-dentate. Corolla 

 infundibuliform, faux villous; limb 5-lobed, nearly regular. 

 Stamens 5, long, exserted. Style filiform, bifid. Ovary very 

 hairy, 3-4.-celled; cells 1-seeded. 



There is always one leaflet less in the involucre than the 

 number of flowers in the fascicle, the central flower having 

 no fulcrum. This species was sent to Dr. Roxburgh from 

 Sylhet, and by him called JRoscoea ; that name, however, 

 being preoccupied, a new one has become necessary. I have 

 therefore given it that o^ Sphenodesme, [fasciculus alatus.) 



(Mr. Jack's shrub is certainly different: I call it Congea 

 Jackiana. — Wall.) 



STERCULIA COCCINEA. Roxh. 



MoNADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



S. coccinea ; foliis oblonjjo-lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis gla- 

 bris, racemis axillaribus et lateralibus nutantibus, laciniis 

 calycinis linearibus patentibus, folliculis coccineis. 



Native of Pulo Penang. — A large, smooth shrub. Leaves 

 at the summits of the branches, alternate, petiolate, 8-10 

 inches long, oblongo-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, abrupt 

 at the base, entire, smooth on both sides. Petioles thickened 

 at both ends. Macetnes lateral, from among the leaves at the 

 end of the branches, drooping; jlowers alternate, pedicellate; 

 pedicells articulated. Tuhe of the calyx somewhat ventricose; 

 limb 5-parted, lacinioe linear, with revolute margins, twice .is 

 long as the tube, spreading. Corolla none. Stamens 10, 

 sessile on the stipes of the germen. Ovary stipitate on a 

 column as long as the tube, subrotund, 5-lobed, crowned 



