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Gordonia by the more numerous sepals and petals, passing 
gradually from the short coriaceous external sepals, to the 
large coloured interior petals. 
Atalantia monophylla DC. 
Oxalis corniculata Liun. 
. Connarus (Rourea, W. et Arn.) microphyllus Hook. et 
Arn.—Foliola usque ad 10-juga, in foliis superioribus seepius 
4-6-juga, omnia obtusa v. obtuse acuminata. 
Zanthoxylum nitidum DC.—Variat foliolis 3-9, integer- 
rimis crenatisque, costa utrinque aculeata v. inermi. 
Berchemia lineata DC. 
Evonymus nitidus (sp. n.) ; foliis ovatis obovatis oblongisve 
obtuse acuminatis coriaceis nitidis integerrimis, pedunculis 
semel bisve dichotomis folio dimidio brevioribus, floribus 
tetrameris, capsula 4-loculari apice breviter lobata, seminibus 
solitariis, arilla parva tenui.—1 have specimens of the same 
gathered many years ago in the Horticultural Society's 
garden, under the name of E. Chinensis, but the plant to 
which Loureiro gave that name must, from his description, 
belong to some totally different genus. 
Catha monosperma. Celastrus monosperma Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
ed. Wall. 2. 394.— Roxburgh describes the panicles as axillary 
and terminal, linear, thin of branches, two, three or even 
four times longer than the leaves. In the specimens before 
me, however, they usually bear leaves in the greater part 
of their length, thus forming flowering branches with small 
corymbs at the axils of the leaves, the upper corymbs alone 
form naked panicles. In other respects the plant agrees 
with Roxburgh's description. The dissepiments of the 
ovary are incomplete, and in the fruit (which is always by 
abortion monospermous), they form merely slightly projecting 
broad ribs in the centre of each valve: 
Crotalaria albida Heyne, var. ? hirsutior, foliis latioribus, 
legumine vix calycem superante.—Although this looks very 
different from the opposite extreme form of the species (C. 
scoparia, Wall), the two appear to be connected by a long 
series of intermediates. 
