Hifpericum. polyadelphia polyandria. 891) 



5. M. riyida. Roxb. 



Leaves alternate, approximate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 rigid, pungent-mncronate, nerveless, but slightly striated, 

 spikes panicled. Flowers tern. 



A native of the Molucca Islands. To what size it grows 

 I cannot say. 



Leaves approximate, scattered, sessile, straight, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, rigid, very smooth nevertheless, but slightly striated 

 lengthways, sharp pungent-pointed, about three fourths of 

 an inch long, by one line in breadth. Spikes termimal, cy- 

 lindric, five or six of them forming the panicle, ending in a 

 small bud, which in due time protrudes a branchlet beyond 

 them, and by the time the seeds are ripe, the capsules are la- 

 teral. They are tasteless. Calyx smooth, border of five large, 

 rounded segments. Petals five, sub-sessile, round. Filaments 

 about twenty-five, much longer than the corol, united at the 

 base into five bodies. Germ smooth. Style rather shorter than 

 the stamens. Stiffma simple. 



DURIO. Schreh. gen. N. 1221. 

 Calyx gibbous, five-toothed. Corol five or six-petalled. 

 Stamina in five bodies. Style single. Pome superior, five- 

 celled. 



D. Zibethinus. Willd. iii. 1434. Konig in Trans, oj" Linn. 

 Soc. vii. p. 266. 



Durio. Rnmph. Amb. i. t. 29. 



A native of the Malay Islands. The fleshy aril which en- 

 velopes the seed of this large fruit, like that of the Jack, is the 

 part eaten ; but not so universally admired, for its strong, by 

 some thought very oflfensive, ^Qieli. 



HYPERICUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1224. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Petals five. Filaments many, conjoin- 

 ed into five sets. 



