698 MONOECiA MONADKLPHiA. Btadleia. 



longer, in the male oblong-, in the female tapering from the 

 base. Filaments very short. Anthers from four to six-lobed, 

 linear. Female flowers sessile. Germ ovate, six-celled, 

 with two oviila in each, attached to the thick axis. Style short 

 and thick. Stigma six-lobed ; lobes pointed and incurved. 

 Capsule much depressed, turnip-shaped, with a concave 

 apex and base, grooved, six-celled, twelve-valved. Valves 

 composed of two distinct coats ; the exterior one smooth, ra- 

 ther spongy and olive-coloured ; the interior one like hard 

 thin parchment, these open from the base, warp, and soon 

 drop oft", leaving the red seed attached to the clavate recepta- 

 cle or axis. Seeds two in each cell, attached to the clavate 

 axis, a full half of each on the side where two meet is filled 

 with a soft yellow pulp when recent, which on drying disap- 

 pears, and leaves a vacuum, coloured by the two exterior in- 

 teguments almost exactly as in Bradleia Sinica, (Gcert. Sent. 

 ii. 127. t. 109.) which I might have supposed this to be, had 

 1 not now before me K(3nig's very excellent description and 

 fioure of that species in the first volume of his Annals of Bo^ 

 tany, p. 356. pi. l.f, 4. Integuments three ; the exterior one 

 red, polished and glossy ; the second one like parchment ; and 

 the interior one thin and brown. Perisperm soft completely 

 covering the embryo. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons oblique- 

 ly ovate, cordate, thin. Radicle superior, with its apex at 

 the umbilicus. 



3. B. impuber. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong, entire, smooth. 

 Flowers axillary, pedicelled. Style none. Stigma perfo- 

 rated with a many-ribbed ray. Capsule turbinate. 



A native of the Moluccas, agreeing well with the descrip- 

 tion of the Agyneja impuber in the Mantissa, except that the 

 peduncles and the little roundish bractes round their inser- 

 tions are smooth. 



4. B. pubera, R. 



All the tender parts more or less downy. Leaves short- 



