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SPHENODESMA. 183 
Calyx infundibuliform leviter 10-striatus griseus, 5-den- 
tibus erectis. 
Cor. infundib. tubo calycis longitudine, 5-partita laciniis 
reflexo-patent. subcordatis with a slight disposition to 3 labia- 
tion, line of coloration abrupt along the faux. 
Stam. 5 alternant. fauci inserta, filam. atropurpureis, subu- 
latis erectis, 2 superior vel posticis paullo brevior, Anth. longe 
exsertæ oblong, basi bilobæ, sinu affixz, biloculari, longit. 
dehiscentes. 
Stylus albus staminibus } longior declinatus. Stigma bifi- 
dum acutum. Annulus pilorum tenuis ad insertion. filamentor. 
Ovarium oblongum glabrum apicem parce glandulosum 
biloculare, loculis 2-ovulatis, ovula pendula, divided from each 
other by a process of the placenta which reaches to the wall 
of the cell, where it is truncate. ovules reaching quite to 
the fundus, 
Pollen ovato-oblongum glabrum, 1-3 plicatum. Ova 
With the base surrounded inside by a series of erect calycine 
hairs, 
Nothing can shew more clearly than these instances, that 
the ovarium in all is unilocular at the apex; the placenta, if 
its apex is alone considered, is really Santalaceous. 
Although the involucre is generally small, yet the lower 
"T of some panicles here and there are as large as ordi- 
marily happens, in all, the flowers are 3 only, and this is the 
only species in which there is no correspondence between 
© flowers and the involucrate leaves, those being to these 
all others equal plus one. 
inflorescence in this species is freely cymose, the 
lateral flowers in each of the dichotomes being wanting, we 
May hence expect 1-flowered pluri-involucrate inflorescences. 
Sphenodesma tridora. Cymis trifloris, floribus laterali tri- 
in 
“yan name Aloor Gagah. 
.. Has. Malacca at Verupha. 
