Melodinus. pentandria digynia. 55 



smooth. Coro/ five-parted rotate ; segments oblong, in the 

 bud imbricated. Nectary subcylindric ; exterioi' lamina 

 membranaceous, ensiforra, ending in long, fine, acute 

 points, which converge over the stigma, their texture 

 horny and polished ; in their retuse tops, are the pits 

 where the anthers are lodged. Germs two ; Style short ; 

 common stigma five-angled ; to the points of the angles 

 the five-ovate, hard, polished, chesnut-coloured bodies 

 are attached, which give substantial support to the five 

 pairs of large, oval anthers, by means of their thick, 

 short, polished chesnut-coloured, cyathiform pedicels. 



29. A. acuminata. R. 



Ligneous parts with suberous bark. Leaves ovate-ob- 

 long, acuminate, above polished, villous underneath. Um- 

 bels paired in the alternate axils, sub-globular, crowded. 

 Mouth of the corol with five incurved glands. 



A large scandent, and twining perennial, with the bark 

 of the trunk, and old woody parts particularly spongy, 

 and deeply split. The young shoots villous. UmbelletSf 

 in pairs, sub-axillary, and never in opposite axils ; 

 crowded with small, white, short-pedicelled flowers. It is 

 a native of the forests of Chittagong, and from thence was 

 introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms about the beginning of the rainy season. 



MELODINUS. Sckreb. gen. n. 425. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol infundibuliform ; mouth 

 crowned with five simple, or divided scales. Germ su- 

 perior, two-celled ; ovula numerous, attached to the thick, 

 elevated centre of the partition. Berry two-celled, seeds 

 numerous, immersed in pulp. Embryo furnished with a 

 perisperm ; radicle centripetal. 



