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108 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
is to have quaternary sepals and petals, 8 stamens, anda 3-celled ovary, with ‘2 superposed 
ovules in each. ‘To admit my plant it would require te-stand thus—Calyx 4-5 lobed, 
petals 4-5. Stamens 8-10, free or united at the base. Ovary 3 or 5-celled, with 2 super- 
posed ovules in each. Scandent armed shrubs, with ternate, or simple leaves, and axillary 
solitary, or racemose, “ pretty large, white, fragrant flowers” (Roxb.) Sych a union is however 
very objectionable as combining two plants, one with the number of petals and cells of the 
ovary equal, and the other with them unequal. I therefore pursue what I consider the more 
judicious course, that of forming a genus for the reception of this plant. 
Luvonea.—Hamilton.—The following is Roxburgh’s description of the fructification of 
his Limonia scandens, now Luvunga, Flora Indica, 2 page 380.‘ Calyx l-leaved, cylindric 
with the mouth cut into four short, truncate divisions. Petals 4, linear oblong, fleshy, recurved. 
Filaments 8; the lower half united into a firm, fleshy tube. Anthers linear, incumbent. Germ 
conical, elevated on a fleshy receptacle, 3-celled with 2 vertical ovula in each, attached to the 
axis, Style cylindric. Stigma entire, roundish. rry oblong, somewhat 3-lobed, size of a 
pigeon’s egg, pretty smooth, pulp of a resinous nature, and odoriferous, 3-celled. Seed solitary, 
oval, somewhat pointed at the apex, covered with a single greenish-veined integument. 
Perisperm none, Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. Cotyledons oblong, green, fleshy. 
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Plumula 2.lobed. Radicle ovate, superior. 
Two species of this genus are named in Wallich’s list, namely, Z. scandens and L. Tavoy- 
ana—Roxburgh thus characterizes the. former, his Limonia seandens ‘ Shrubby, scandent, 
armed, leaves ternate, leaflets lanceolar, entire: [flowers racemose,|: berries 3-seeded” Roxb. 
The following character will] think distinguish my new genus from all the others 
of the order. - 
nly one species is yet known, the one here figured—It varies however in having larger, 
and more decidedly ovate leaves, and smaller thorns, differences depending I apprehend on 
Juxuriance only. ie 
he species of Micromelum the examination of which enabled me to determine, that the 
above was really a distinct genus, isa native of Ceylon, and does not seem to differ from Blume’s 
M. pubescens. 
ATALANTIA. The habit and general appearance of both plants are 
_ The following brief characters will sufficiently dis- ie eae 
tinguish my two species of Atalantia. GLYCOSMIS 
A. monophylia DeC. Style as long as the st s 
stigma adhaaplina lobed ee _ I mentioned above, that I had met with what I con- 
A, platystigma. R. W. Style wanting, stigma large et pies vee ra fic D ainti ae ‘han te 
oe sec oe Ng, a character may perha istinguishi the 
flat, appressed to the apex of the ovary. Ns preceding speien: ee ee 
