314 DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW PLANTS 
Rhododendrons of India and Ceylon, or the humble herbaceous grasses 
of high latitudes with the Bamboos of the tropics. 
The latest systematic work in which these two Orders are treated is 
Lindley's “Vegetable Kingdom ;” and there the essential marks by which 
they are said to be distinguished from each other are the presence of sti- 
pules pe anthers = — N valves i in CERIS. Ap and the want 
of the former, ise, in Bruniacee. But 
let us examine how far these characteristic. points are found to be 
general. With regard to stipules, which in a few Orders are of great 
. value as accessory characters, they are distinctly stated not to exist in 
Bucklandia ; nor are any to be found in Tetracrypta,a new genus belonging 
to the Ceylon Flora, which, in several points of structure, forms a trans- 
ition from the one Order to the other.* Then in Bruniacee the anthers are 
not turned outwards but inwards; and I find that those of Tetracrypta 
are identical with those of Brunia itself ; that those of Dicoryphe, Cory- 
lopsis, Parrotia, Fothergilla ; Distylium, and Bucklandia,'open by longi- 
tudinal slits ; and that while in the other genera of Hamamelidacee they 
do open by valves, it is only in that section of Hamamelis to which 
* I here offer a description of this genus. 
TreTRACRYPTA, Garda. et Champ. 
CHAR. Gen. Calyx tubo cum ovario era 8-costato, limbo supero, 4-parti 
laciniis Ane um Corolle viet » epigyna, cuneata, profunde iet: 
riata, lis filiformibus, sestivatione valvato- involuta. Stamina 8, cum 
n 
p inserta, lena iisdem ego sita breviora: filamenta filiformia, basi subdila- 
her 
introrse, ovate, en biloculares, Bog 
longitudinaliter. pee 
Ov 
Squamule n are. 
ula in loculis solitaria, pendula, anatropa. Sh yli k distinti, subulati, ii: 
Stigmata diui id Fructus ignotus, Arbuseula Ceylan glabra. Cinna- 
momii = ; — — — coriaceis, Ov stalls acuminatis 
integerri supra axillaribus, 1-3, iem v 
sce. good g 8-12 foris, floribus parvis, Fes cu has unt- 
bracteatis. 
A Timerypa cin namomoides, Gardn. et Champ. 
Has. Ceylon. Not uncommon in the low jungles of the western and southern 
buscula ramosa, glabra, ramis teretibus, erectis demum pendulis. Folia 
re terna, mh petiolata, c coriacea, ovato-oblonga, al sitemuato.ac cuminata, basi o tusa 
res, 3 lin. longus, ra axillares, 1-3, in seriem 
Cortial Vetere Wn vel basi subeomposit er ei ees striati, puberuli, 
folio multo bre Ores nuces , parvi, longi, basi unibracteati, bracteis 
linearibus inti paei bo calycem æquan tibus Calyx tubo ovato, cum ovario 
connato, "gena pu aaral, 1j ln. longo, limbo supero, 4-partito, laciniis ovatis 
acutis, extus puberulis, tubo eequilongis, sstivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 4, 
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