364 THYMELACEX. 
Fructus deflexo-pendula sessilis peduncle strictis. Pedi- 
cellis crassis brevis, subturbinatis basi nudi vel perianthio spa- 
thaceum fisso, globoso conico apiculato paullo immatura 
subdrupacea, 1-locularis, 1-sperum. 
Semen 1 pendulum conform. 
 Tegumen outer thickest greenish, inner membrane very 
veiny ! raphe marked on the outer broad 3 complete, multipar- 
tite, albumen 0. 
Cotyledones magne albz subhzmispherice, extus quasi 
venose with impressions.of the veins of the teguments, Plu- 
mula inconspicua. 
Has. Malacca. Bhatto Burndan. 
It is among these plants that we have an apparently simple 
ovary, and the style truly terminal; but it by no means 
follows that all the ovaria are really simple, although the 
presence of 3 vassels is nearly as compatible with a simple 
as with a ternary ovary. 
Gen. CHAR. 
Spicz vel racemi paniculat. medio bifolio floralibus. 
Flores nudi, articulati in pedicellis brevissimis. 
Per. tubulos. 5-fida laciniis imbricatis. 
Squamze faucinz totidem petaloides bifide, incluse. 
Stam. 10 biseriata. Anth. biloc. longit. Ovar. 1-loculare 
ovulo pendulo. 
Stylus brevis. Stigma capitat. papillos. 
Fruct. peduncul. fol. flor. ampliata planifacta scariosa, 
reticulato-venosa drupacea, l-sperma. Sem. exalbumen. 
Habitus peculiaris. Ramuli uncinatim decurvi. 
Fruit marked by two opposite longitudinal whitish yellow 
lines, also with a tendency to being veiny, its white spots are 
stomata, I have a Mergue species of the same family ia 
which the inner tegmen of the riper seed at least, is very veiny 
the outer in this appears to have none except the raphe, 
= STORIE 
