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acute. Stamens 8, erect, shorter than the corolla. Filaments 

 short. Anthers blue, attached by their middle, horizontal, 

 shaped somewhat like the head of an axe, with a knob 

 behind ; cells parallel on the anterior edge. Before expan- 

 sion, the anthers are bent downwards, (somewhat in the 

 manner of the MelastomcB,) and the surface of the germen and 

 bottom of the calyx are marked with their impressions, of 

 which the four inner are the deepest; the ridges between 

 them form eight sharp, prominent rays, and there are eight 

 other less conspicuous lines, formed by the faces of the 

 bilocular anthers. Ovary ovate, 1 -celled, containing 6-8 erect 

 ovules. Style filiform, a little longer than the stamens. 

 Stigma acute. Berry cortical, crowned by the persistent 

 calyx, ovate, a little oblique at the base, 1 -seeded, the rudi- 

 ments of the abortive ovules surrounding the umbilicus. 

 Seed ovate, umbilicate at the base and a little oblique. 

 Albumen none. JLmhryo erect. Cotyledons membranaceous, 

 contortuplicate. Radicle cylindrical, nearly as long as the 

 seed, obverse to the umbilicus. 



Obs. The different species of Memecylon have not been 

 well defined by authors : this appears to differ from M. corda- 

 tum, Lamarck, and M. grande, Retz, or Nedum schetti, Rheed. 

 Mai. V.2. p. 21. t. 15, in having ovate, not globose, fruit, and 

 in the flowers not being umbelled. In the latter, the flowers 

 are small, yellow, and numerous; in this, they are larger, 

 blue, and much fewer in number. 



LAURUS PARTHENOXYLON. * W. J. 

 Enneandria Monogynia. 



Foliis venosis ovatis acutis petiolatis subtus glaucis, paniculis 

 brevibus paucifloris axillaribus et lateralibus, fructu glo- 

 bose calyci truncato insidente. 



Kayo Gadis. Malay. — Abundant in the forests of Sumatra. 

 — A lofty timber tree. Bark brown and rough. Leaves 



* " For an account of a nearly-allied species, see a paper of Dr. Wallich, on the 

 Nlpal Camphor and Sassafras Tree, {Lmirus glanduUfera, Wall,,) in the Transac- 

 tions of the Medictil and Physical Society of Calcutta, vol 1." 



