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specimens, to which I had previously given the 
same specific name, accurately correspond with this char- 
acter. 
Sethia lanceolata, a Bs ieee lanceolate, obtuse, 
short petioled, peduncl ary, about thrice 
= length of tthe pets cian longer than the stamens, 
ted about two-t f their length, free, and re- 
pede at the — seein Makes 
Var. B. obtusifolia. Leaves from elliptical tapering 
slightly Sinats the base to obovate, cuneate. 
Hab.—Courtallum in thick jungles. 
two gona are proeuly ae sRecle but 
as the form of the style and sti n both, 
I prefer keeping ee together, ‘hough ee “ibe dif- 
ferent. In the first the leaves are long and narrow in 
EXPLANATION 
1. Sethia ic natural size. 
_ 2. An expanded flower. 
_ 3. The same, partially —— with a detached 
petal, showing the scale at the 
ae saben stamens removed to ee the union of the 
5. Detached stamens back and front vie 
6. The ovary cut transversely, the upper ‘half with the 
pes and piguus attached, 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
prapertien to sete length, that is, from 2% to 3 inches 
ong, by about j of an inch in breadth: while in the 
one: they are mee 13 nels in length, and 3 to 1 inch 
in breadth, and the stipules which sheath the ends of 
the young shoots are larger. 
Sethia erythroxyloides, (R. W.) Leaves oblong, lanceo- 
late, coriaceous, slightly retuse at the apex, subsessile 
peduncles a axillary, ee a three or four-times the length; 
of the petiols: styles s stamens, faa 
nearly to the base; asigtios jacuneds clavate. 
Hab. — Courtallum in thick jungles. 
This species is very closely allied to the former, but 
the marked difference in the styles and stigmas forbid 
their being united. 
OF PLATE 48. 
7. The same cut vertically, showing the pendulous 
ovary. 
8. A mature fruit, natural size. 
9. Cut transversely, two of the cells og a 
10. Cut edhe showing the form of the 
ing to an oversight the na arabs wien not 
added in in this plate, those here given are what ought to 
have been, and may be yet supplied with pen and ink, 
XXXVI—MALPIGHIACE. 
A rather i order oe — plants but principally confined to America, a very few being 
found in 7 Yadie: and these he greater number of Indian species 
are scandent shrubs, with jointed branches and opposite diopie entire leaves,without dots, and 
minute stipules, some hugger of the order are clothed with appressed evs bristles, others 
- with besce The flowers are for the most part bisexual, regular, racemose, or 
corymbose, rarely ahiaey. the pedicels often jointed in the middle and ferischied with bractiols. 
alyx 5-sepaled, free or slightly united, persistent, imbricated in wstivation, and furnished 
with a definite number of conspicuous glands. etals 5 unguiculate, inserted on a discoid torus, 
sometimes unequal, seldom wanting. Stamens 10, rarely fewer, filaments either distinct or 
partly united at the base, anthers roundish, 2-celled, opening by longitudinal lateral slits, in- 
trorse. usually 3-celled, occasionally nore or less distinct, ovules solitary, pendulous, 
styles 3 distinct, or cohering into one. t berried or dry, 3. celled, or by abortion, 2 or 
1-celled and 1-seeded, often with the dais of the back expanded into a wing, seeds pendu- 
lous, attached to the central axis of the carpel, exarillate, albumen none. Embryo curved or 
straight : radicle superior, short. See foliaceous, or oo 
Hippocratescer “which have samaroid fruit vac sessile Sia this is not a good dis- 
are, in proportion to their size, fully as 
Speman is different, being in this supe- 
, that Malpig chiacee are only distinguishable 
sand bier allied orders “ a the radicle of the embryo being uniformly 
or, it is inferior. Meisner i in his Plantarum Vascularium Genera combines 
>» his class _ Hee hinae the follo owing orders, Hippocastaneae, Sapindaceae, hich 
Rear Ne. dad a Secs ue « and the oad the characters: of which 
