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the mouth, and conceals the anthers. The stigma is large, 

 sessile, simple as far as I have observed, not double, as 

 stated by Loureiro. The ovary appears to be 1-celled, and 

 to contain two pendulous ovules. It rarely ripens its fruit in 

 these Islands ; but, according to Loureiro, it bears a small, 

 red, 1-seeded berry. Flowers very small, yellow, and fra- 

 grant, in small axillary panicles. 



In the catalogue of the Hortus Benghalensis, p. 18, this 

 plant is specified under the name of Camunium sinense, 

 after Rumphius. The Murraya paniculata above described 

 is the true Kamuning of the Malays, and the name Ck 

 sinense is only applied by Rumphius, in the manner of the 

 older botanical authors, as one of comparison and resem- 

 blance, for want of a better of native origin ; if, therefore, the 

 generic name Camunium is to be adopted at all, it ought to 

 be applied to the plant to which it really belongs, and cannot 

 be admitted for one of a different family, not indigenous to 

 the Malay Islands. On this account, Loureiro's name is to 

 be preferred. 



RHIZOPHORA CARYOPHYLLOIDES. W. J. 



DODECANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Fruticosa, foliis ovato-lanceolatis utrinque acutis, pedunculis 

 axillaribus 3-floris, rarius dichotome 5-floris, floribus 8- 

 fidis, radicula subcylindrica acutiuscula. 



Mangium Caryophylloides, Humph. Amh. v. 3. p. 119. t. 

 78. — Found at Singapore and Pulo Penang. — A shrub, much 

 smaller than the common Mangrove, and with less divided roots. 

 Generally found in shallow sandy salt-marshes, rising with 

 a tolerably erect stem, and branched nearer to the base than 

 the common species. Leaves opposite, petiolate, about four 

 inches long, oval or ovate, lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 sometimes slightly inequilateral, very entire and smooth, 

 coriaceous; the lower surface appearing, under the lens, 

 dotted with minute white points. Petioles round, furrowed 

 above, smooth. Stipules long, enveloping the corniculate 

 buds in the manner of a Ficus, very deciduous. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 3-flowered, shorter than the petioles; 



