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Conocarpus has in like manner been by Dr. Wallich divided into two genera and appa- 
rently on good grounds, namely, the direction of the carpels and the comparative length of the 
ealyx. He limits Conocarpus to the American species the tube of the ca yx of which is not 
produced beyond the ovary, and the carpels are retrosely imbricated, not winged: while of the 
Indian species, which have the calyx produced considerably beyond the ovary and contracted 
into a slender neck, with the carpels imbricated upwards, winged and crowned by the neck of the 
calyx he forms the genus Anogeissus, from DeCandolle’s section of the same name. This inno- 
bat is not adopted by Meisner in his genera Plantarum though it has been in the flora Sene- 
gambie. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 91. 
1. Terminalia Belerica, (Roxb.) Flowering branch— 5-6. The same cut transversely and vertically. : 
natural size. “7 A with the cord, by which it is suspended 
2. A flower, the limb of the calyx to show the inser- from the apex of the cell of the nut. 
tion of the stamens, The testa removed to show the cotyledons, 
3. An anther after dehiscence. 9. Cut transversely, to show the cotyledons spirally 
4. A fruit full grown. convolute, 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 92. 
1. Quisqualis indica—natural size. . 4, Ovary cut transversely, 1-celled. 
2. The ovary and the tube of the calyx opened, to 5, Cut vertically, showing three pendulous ovules, 
show the insertion of the stamens and its adhesion with 6. Stigma. 
the lower portion of the style, uhe extremity only of the 7. A fall grown fruit. 
latter being free. 8-9. The same cut transversely and vertically. 
3. Stamens, 10. The keruel removed from the cell, 
LXI.—MEMECYLE. 
This is a small order, in Indian Botany limited to one genus, Memecylon, a second is found 
in Cochin-china. {t consists of shrubs or small trees, with opposite, simple, entire, often thick- 
ish succulent exstipulate leaves, with one central rib and without translucent dots. The flowers 
are very numerous, small. axillary, pedicelled, sometimes congested in dense capitule, ocvasion- 
ally corymbose ; usually blue, forming together with the bright shining green leaves most beauti- 
fal plants, but strangely enough, no where, that I have seen, introduced into cultivation as orna- 
ments of the shrubbery or flower garden, though met with in every jungle. 
“ Calyx 4-5-lobed or toothed: the limb striated in the bottom on the inside. Petals 4-5, 
alternate with the sepals, imbricated into the form of a cone during estivation. Stamens twice 
as many as the petals: filaments distinct, in estivation almost wanting: anthers curved, 2 celled, 
form of a little ball. 
nerved, or rarely 3-nerved.” 
- Arrinities. The affinities of this order are on the one hand with Myrtaceae with which — 
they agree in habit, and in their opposite one ribbed leaves, but differ in their leaves wanting 
pellucid dots, and in their foliaceous convolute cotyledons, and on the other, with Melastomaceae, 
to which they approach in the structure of their anthers and some other points, but differ in 
the form of the cotyledons and in their one not 3-nerved leaves. Notwithstanding these differ- 
ences, however, they have recently been by some eminent Botanists united asa sub-order with 
Melastomaceae. How far this union is judicious | am unable to say, not having studied them — 
with sufficient attention to admit of my offering a decided opinion on the subject: though Ucon- 
fess that so far as present information extends [ approve of keeping them disinct. I however 
