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served—He says, “ Obs. Schrebera stamina apud Schreb, ( gen. 446) et Juss. 1. c. (gen. plant) 
decuntur basi intus squamulis minutis ciliatis predita, quarum vero nulla facta est mentio in 
char-generico apud. W.and Arn.” ‘The error here is, in supposing the Schrebera of Linnwus 
and Retz the same—the Linnean plant to which the sguamulis minutis ciliatis belongs, is a 
species of Cusuita—and the Linnean S. schinoides was Cuscuta Africana growing on a Myrica, 
In the Schrebera of Retz no such character exists, and as already remarked, I think it an 
unnecessary genus, and regret to see it taken up anew, by so excellent a Botanist as Meisner, 
in a work so likely from its general accuracy to have an extensive circulation and to be looked 
up to as one of considerable authority. 
disk ; a broad 5-lobed disk covering the whole hollow of the calyx, the lobes opposite, cover. 
ing, and adnate with the base of the petals, anda 3-celled superior ovary with two rows of ascend- 
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science, forced by bad health to leave the scene of his usefulness. ‘T'wo of these can be readily 
defined, the rest cannot be satisfactorily made out and must be left for future investigation, 
since, it is worse than useless to name plants which we have not the means of describing with 
sufficient precision to admit of their being afterwards recognized from the description. 
judging from a solitary not very perfect specimen in my herbarium of the Lu. Jimbriatus 
Wall. a native of the Himalayas, communicated by the late Countess of Dalhousie, it appears, 
that that species belongs to the genus Pterocelastrus of Meisner, one hitherto only found at the 
Cape. My specimen is not in fruit, but the ovaries, shortly after the fall of the flowers, show 
the wings of the carpels already well formed. The specimen is from Masoori, an much 
the habit of an Euonymus. ‘This plant along E. japonicus, equally a native of Nepaul and 
Japan, adds another to the, already existing, numerous links, between the floras of these 
remote countries. 
LOPHOPETALOYM, (R. W. Glabrous trees, or shrubs, leaves opposite, petioled. 
Calyx scutelliform, 5-lobed, lobes rounded, short, Flowers numerous, on large spreading a a mies : 
Petals 5, sessile, orbiculate, expanding, usually, fur- Petals sometimes without a crest and isk not 
nished with a crest, and covered near the base wit obed. : : : an eee 
the projecting lobes of the disk Torus discoid, 5-Iobed, In the construction of this character, which is consi- 
or angled, thick, fleshy, covering the whole cavity of derably alrered from that published in the Ieones I have 
, petals. availed myself both of amore extended acquaintance 
Stameus 5, alternate with the petals, inserted on the with the order, derived from recent study, and of Dr. 
disk, anthers versatile, ovate, 2-celled, dehiscing longi- Arnott’s character, which reached me as this article 
tudinally, ovary free, 3-celied, ovules in a double series, was passing through the press, to improve it to the ut- 
4-12, in each cell, ascending, style short, persistent, most, and at the same time, so to fix its limits as to 
stigma obtuse, capsule —, seed —. prevent them interfering with those of Euonymus,which 
