G48 PENTANDRIA iMONOGYNIA. J'dieca. 



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tent. Bark of the old parts smooth, and ash coloured ; of the 

 young shoots with a little, short, ferruginous pubescence. 

 Leaves alternate, about the end of the branchlet, short-peti- 

 oled, lanceolar, entire, waved, acute, smooth, and glossy 

 above; from four to twelve inches long, and from one to four 

 broad. Stipules none. Peduncles (axillary, solitary, about 

 an inch long, many -flowen d, villous. Flowers middle- 

 sized, white, inodorous, pcdicelled. Bractes small, cadu- 

 cous. Calyx one leaved, five-tootlied, villous, caducous. 

 Petals five, linear-oblong, recurved, many times longer than 

 the calyx. Filaments five, inserted on the receptacle, short- 

 er than the germ, and pressing upon it. Anthers sagittate. 

 Germ superior, oblong, torulose, villous, one-celled, with 

 many ovula, attached to two or three parietal receptacles. 

 Style short. Stigma pretty large, two or three-lobed. 



2. V. lanceolata. R. 

 Leaves alternate, lanceolar. Flowers in axillary fascicles. 



An erect, shrubby plant, a native of Pulo Pinang. 



Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate; 

 vebis numerous, simple and parallel ; smooth on both sides. 

 Stipules within the leaves, lanceolate, chaffy. Flowers small, 

 numerous, collected on short-ped uncled, axillary, compound 

 corymbs, pale yellow. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets oval, con- 

 cave, permanent. Petals five, lanceolate, expanding, perma- 

 nent. Filaments five, shorter than the petals, incurved, unit- 

 ed at the base into a ring round the lower half of the germ. 

 Anthers arrow-shaped, erect. Germ superior, ovate, hairy. 

 Style longer than the stamens, hairy. Stigma simple. Cap- 

 sules three-lobed, leathery, one-celled, evalvular. Seeds se- 

 veral, affixed to three, vertical, parietal receptacles, on the in- 

 side of the middle of the lobes of the capsules. 



3. V. heteroclita. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-lanceolar, crenate. Flowers axil- 

 lary, crowded, sessile. 



