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The genus Medicia I have dedicated to the memory of Lorenzo de’ 
Medici, who, at his villa at Careggi, near Florence, possessed, aecordin 
to Roscoe, his elegant historian, one of the earliest collections of plants 
in Europe which deserves the name of a Botanical Garden. 
tomentoso, basi prm limbo 4-partito, lobis ovato-oblongis sequalibus tubo 
tri Rond breviori ribus demum reflexis, estivatione valvatà. Stamina 5, lobis corolle 
alterna, fau : ent @ dorso 
tosa, 
ilocularis, matura septicide ab apice ad basin dehiscens, valvis intus septo longi- 
tudinaliter fisso. Placente carnosæ, mee oblongee, upto adnatze, demum 
iberze 
Semina plurima, penes compres: nearia, nem et apice in 
aceam acutam prod ie intra albumen carnosum min 
cylindricus, retusus, axilis ; D diculd erassiusculá, ob superá ; cotyledonibus 
oblongis, obtusis.—Frutex Malae ; folii is, petiolatis, ovato-ellipticis, 
obtusis, ee gerrimis, subtus puberulis, petiolis vittula transversali connexis, 
corymbis ¢erminalibus, compactis, ramis ferrugineo-tomentosis. 
l. Norrisia Malaccensis, Gardn. 
Has. Peninsula of Malacca, Griffith. 
rutex ramosus. Rami ipren egaa puberulis. Fo/ia opposita, petiolata, 
ovato-elliptica, obtusa, basi acutiuscula, ini integerrima, supra viridia, glabra, pct 
aie pallida, puberula, comin pennivenia, venis subtus pace, 22-3 poll 
longa, l-l; poll. lata: petiolus semiteres, supra canaliculatus, puberulus, 3 lin. 
m = transverso loco stipule junctus.  Corymói terminales trichotomi, mul- 
f eo i, basi unibracteati, bractei 
4 e -tomentosi ; pedicelli brevissimi, uni i, 
ovatis mera tomentosis. Calyx liber, parvus, 5-partitus, basi lere rn sepalis 
ovatis obtusis imbricatis persistentibus extus tomentosis margine ciliatis semilineam 
longis. Corolla hypogyna, eh alba (?), fauce qme pre extus 
tomentoso, 3 lin. longo, basi subinflato ; Zimġo 4-partito, lobis ovato-oblongis, æqua- 
libus, tubo triplo brevioribus, demum reflexis, estivatione valv. M Stamina 5, lobis 
e 
pl am filif 
erp glaber, deciduus ; stigma subcapitatum, pilosiusculum. — oblon nga, 
valvis intus septo longitudinaliter fisso. Placente carnose, lineari-oblonge, 
septo adnate, demum “ie Semina plurima, peltata, compressa, oe nempe 
basi et apice in alam membranaceam acutam produeta. Lmdryo intra albumen 
carnosum midi cylindricus, rectus, axilis; radiculd crassiusculf, obtusa, su ; 
ongis, obtusis. 
With Antonia of South America this plant entirely agrees in habit, and is only 
essentially distinguished from it by the calyx being bi- not multibracteate, the seeds 
i omp li 
i re — 1 "lan! t, ellipti 
shorter than the cell; while i rrisia it is linear-oblong, attached to the Bottom 
of the cell as well as to the Saisie ah occupies iui the whole length of 
