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RElCVESIA* thyrsoidea. 

 Thyrse-fiowered Reevesia. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. ByttneriacejE ; inter Sterculiam {Erythropsin) et Ptero- 

 spermum. 



REEVESIA. — Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus, eestivatione imbricata, 

 pube stellata tomentosus, bracteolatus. Petala 5, hypogyna, unguiculata, 

 sestivatione convoluta, callo inter unguem et laminam. Stamina in toro 

 longo filiforrai insidentia. Antheree 15, sessiles, in cyatho capituliforrai, 

 apice tantilm pervio, obsolete 5-dentato, connatse, extrorsae, biloculares, 

 loculis divaricatis, intricatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollen sphaeri- 

 ciim, glabmm. Ovarium sessile, intra cyathum antheriferum, ovatum, 

 glabrum, 5-angulare, 5-loculare, loculis dispermis. Ovula margini locu- 

 iorum unum super alteram affixa, superiore basi concavo in infeiiorem 

 incumbente. Stigma 5-lobum, simplicissimum, sessile. Capsula stipitata, 

 lignosa, obovata, 5-angularis, 5-locularis, loculicido 5-valvis, axi nullo, 



Semina cuique loculo duo basi alata. Arbor {Chinee) foliis alternis 



exstipnlatis, racemis terminalibus compositis, floribus albis. — Lindley in 

 Brande's journ. n. s. 2. 112. 



Reevesia thyrsoidea. Lindley, I. c. 



" In a collection of dried specimens of plants sent to 

 the Horticultural Society from China, by Mr. Reeves, are 

 a few branches, with flowers, of a remarkable genus which 

 is at present undescribed, but which is of so curious a 

 nature, and of such importance with reference to the deter- 

 mination of some natural affinities, that I have thought it 

 deserving immediate record, especially as drawings of the 

 fruit, which have been subsequently obtained from the 



* Named in honour of John Reeves, Esq., now resident at Canton, to 

 whom we are indebted for our knowledge of this plant ; from whose 

 unwearied exertions in the cause of science, the Botany of China has 

 received material assistance; and to whom our Gardens are indebted for 

 many of the fairest ornameuts they contain. 



