Alyxia. pentandria monogynia. 099 



recurved spikes. Corols with a short, woolly-mouthed tube. 

 Stigma clavate, entire. 



A native of Chittagong, where it blossoms in April. 



5. W. odorata. /?. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, polished, acuminate. Corymbs 

 terminal. Ca/yx five-toothed. 



Patugvooja, the vernacular name in Sillier, where it is indi- 

 genous, ami grows to the size of a large shrub, or small tree. 

 Flowering lime the hot season, when the air is perfumed with 

 the fragrance of its blossoms. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, acuminate, en- 

 tii -i i, polished, from four to eight inches long, by from one to 

 two broad. Stipules triangular, &c. as in the order. Corymbs 

 terminal, trichotomous ; ramifications villous. Flowers nu- 

 merous, middle-sized, white, and very fragrant. Bractes op- 

 posite, sub-lanceolate, villous. Calyx poculiform, mouth five- 

 toothed. Corol with the tube twice the length of the calyx ; 

 border of five, spreading, linear-falcate segments, which are 

 longer than the tube. Filaments five, very short. Anthers 

 subulate, nearly as long as the segments of the border of the 

 cordl, over which they spread. Germ inferior, short, turbinate, 

 two-celled, with three or four ovula in each, attached to the 

 thickened middle of the partition. Style and stigma together 

 longer than the corol, of a clavate-subulate shape. 



ALYXIA. Banks. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol hypocrateriform. Germ two- 

 lobed; lobes one-celled, few-seeded; attachment interior. 

 Berrils two, pedicelled, one-seeded. Embryo erect, with 

 echinate, lobed perisperm. 



1. A. stellala. R. 



Shrubby, often twining. Leaves tern, and quatem, oblong- 

 lanceolate, polished. Corymb? terminal, simple, recurved. 



