294 MYRSINACEJX. 
AJEGICERAS, 
AEgiceras fragrans. 
Arbuscula, glabra. Ramuli teretes, Folia sparsa, petio- 
lata obovata, obtusissima, integerrima, coriacea, l-nervia. 
Flores umbellati, albi odorati, umbellz sessiles, axillares vel 
terminales et tunc oppositifoliz, pauciflorze. 
Pedicelli filiformes elongati. 
Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis ovatis membranaceis (basibus car- 
nosis) oblique imbricatis, potius? arcte contortis. 
Cor. gamopetala, hypogyna, hypocrateriformis, tubus ca- 
lycis longitudinis, limbus profunde 5-partitus, laciniz ovate 
acute, demum reflexz! decidua, zstivatio contorta. 
Stam. tot quot petala et iis opposita. Filam. subulata 
exserta, basi in annulum corollz, basin adnatum accreta annu- 
lus, (potius cupula) pubescens. 
(Faux corolle dense pubescens tubus glanduloso pubescens, 
pubescentia nempe glandulis capitata. 
Anth. basibus emarginatis, affixæ, subversatiles, bilocul. 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Loculi parietes crassi-cellulosis, 
Ovarium 1-loculare, ovula 00, placenta carnosa centrali im- 
rsa. 
Stylus subulatus crassiusculus rubro-punctatus. Stigma 
simplex. Ovula ascendentia, inferiora, transversa. | 
Has. In limosis ad ripas flavum Martabanee inter Rhizo- 
phoras copiosa. Florens. Feb.] 
The ovules are not peltate, the ipods are ascending, the 
lower transverse, the foramen is near the hilum, it is by the 
greater subsequent development of the part in which the 
foramen is situated that the seed becomes peltate. The im- 
mersed glands are indistinct. 
Pl. DXLVIII. Fig. a. 
Longitudinal slice of placenta, and the ovula before the 
expansion of the flowers, shewing x, x, the situation of the 
hilum and o, o, the foramen, 
Moulmein: Feb. 1834. 
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