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shorter than the leaves. Flowers white, shortly peclicelled. 

 Calyx deeply 5-parted; lacinice linear, acute. Corolla S-^ 

 petaled, fimbriated at the summit. Nectary of 5 yellow 

 retuse glands, surrounding the ovary. Stamens 15, erect, 10 

 are inserted by pairs between the glands of the nectary, the 

 remaining 5 between those glands and the ovary. Anthers 

 linear, bilamellate at the summit. Style as long as the calyx. 

 Stigma simple. Drupe globose, containing a 5-celled nut, 

 which is rugose, and marked with 5 obtuse longitudinal 

 ridges ; in general only 1 cell is fertile, and contains a single 

 seed. Seed furnished with albumen : embryo inverse, with flat 

 cotyledons and superior radicle. 



Obs. This may, perhaps, be one of the smaller varieties 

 of Ganitrus mentioned by Rumphius : it differs from E. 

 Ganitrus of Roxburgh, who quotes Rumphius, v. 3. t. 10, in 

 the number of the stamens, the position of the racemes, and 

 the number of fertile cells in the nut. Compare Adenoda 

 sylvestris, Loureiro, Fl. Cochin, which agrees in the number 

 of its stamens. I suspect Gsertner must have fallen into an 

 error in representing the embryo erect in his Ganitrus; in this 

 it is certainly inverse. 



MONOCERA. * W. J. 



El^ocarpi Species. 

 Calyx 5-phyllus. Corolla 5-petala, petalis apice laciniatis, 

 saepe sericeis. Stamina plura, antheris apice dehiscenti- 

 bus, unicornibus, valvula altera majore. Ovarium basi 

 glandulis cinctum, biloculare, polysporum. Drupe nuce 

 1-2-sperma. 



This genus, whose characters appear sufficiently distinct, 

 will include, besides the following new species, several hitherto 

 referred to ElcBOcarpus, viz. E. Monocera, (Cavanilles,) the 

 separation of which has already been suggested, and of which 

 the specific name may be appropriately adopted for the genus ; 

 E. riigosus, E. aristatus, and E. bilocularis of Roxburgh; 

 probably also E. grandijlora, and E. reticulata (Sir J. E. 



* " See R. Brown's Prodromus — under Velleia, v. I. p. 580." 



