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The species of Salacia cannot, so far as I have yet been able to ascertain, be thus briefly 
and clearly distinguished by the flowers. The fruit seems to afford better distinguishing marks 
but is often wanting in preserved specimens. The inflorescence also gives several pretty good 
_ characters such as, whether the peduncles have one or several flowers, whether in the former 
case, there are few or many aggregated in the axil of the leaf, and whether they are longer or 
shorter than the petiol—according to these marks they may be thus distributed. 
1.—Peduncles 1-flowered—(from an axillary tubercle). 
A. Peduncles few—(1 or 2 to 6 or 8). 
S. Brunoniana. 8. Roxburghii. 8. prinoides. 8. macrophylla, Blume, one from 
Ceylon, S. reticulata, R. W. one and lastly, S. senegalensis distinct, from Malabar, though for 
the present united with the Ceylon one, D. C. 
B. Peduncles very numerous. 
Two species from Mergui of which I have specimens are referable to this subsection— 
both, so far as I know, undescribed. S. verrucosa, R. W. and S. multifiora, R. W. 
__ These two subsections are perhaps too artificial to prove of much value in practice, as it is 
evident that change of .cireamstances may cause a species to pass from the one into the other. 
2.—Peduncles several flowered. 
A. Peduncles 2-3 cleft, bearing few subsessile flowers on the apex. 
S. pomifera. 8. oblonga. 8S. Javanensis, Blume. S. oblongifolia, Blume. S. melito- 
tarpa, Blume. 
B. Peduncles forked, each division terminating in a simple many flowered umbel, flowers 
longish, pedicelled. 
To this subsection one Mergui species S. floribunda, R. W. belongs. 
The new species of both genera of this enumeration may be thus designated and defined. 
HIPPOCRATEA. ovate obtuse to subreniform, unguiculate, carpels linear, 
: A. Arnottiana, (R. W.) Shrubby, twining, glabrous, spathulate, broadly emarginate at the apex. 
eav inat is 
es ovate, oblong, acuminated, coriaceous, remotely Hiab ciate: 
<renato—serrated on the margin; panicles small, few ; : oe 
lowered, axillary and terminal: petals from’ broadly © The flowers of this species are perhaps, about 
