522 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Temslroemia. 



Young shoots clothed with a little grey, meally pubes- 

 cence. Leaves alternate, petioled, from lanceolate to ob- 

 long, serrate, acuminate, smooth, except the veins on 

 the under side ; from five to ten inches long, and from two 

 to three and a half broad. Petioles about an inch long, 

 channelled, meally. Stipules none. Peduncles lateral, 

 many together, drooping, divided in a triternate man- 

 ner, with one flower on each of the ultimate divisions. 

 Flowers small, rosy. Bractes small, opposite at the di- 

 visions. Calyx five-leaved, permanent. Leaflets unequal, 

 oval. Corol one-petalled. Tube gibbous, sub-campanu- 

 late. Border of five, nearly round cordate, spreading seg- 

 ments, which are imbricated in the bud, as in the contortce. 

 Filaments above fifty, shorter than the tube of the corol, 

 and inserted in a double series into it near the base. 

 Anthers turbinate, two-lobed, having a circular opening 

 in each at the top, for the discharge of the pollen. Germ 

 superior, ovate, five-celled, with numerous ovw/a in each, 

 attached to as many vertical receptacles, which project into 

 their cells from the axis. Style short, five-grooved, five- 

 parted ; segments spreading and finally recurved. Stigmas 

 transversely oval. Berries rather dry, nearly round ; the 

 size of a small pea, smooth, five-celled. Seeds a few in 

 each cell, intermixed with a little pulp, oval, brown. 



2, T. bilocularis. R. 



Branchlets, scaly ; leaves alternate, cuneate, lanceolate, 

 acute, serrulate. Flowers in lateral fascicles below the 

 leaves. Berries three-celled. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



Young shoots clothed with ferruginous subulate scales. 

 Leaves short- petioled, cuneate, lanceolate, acute, finely 

 serrulate, smooth, from four to six inches long and two 

 broad. Flowers peduncled, and collected in little fascicles 

 over the leafless branchlets, small. Calyx five-leaved ; 

 leaflets roundish, imbricated, smooth, permanent. Corol 



