462 RUTACE.E. 
Racemi vel paniculz axillares solitarii vel subaggregati, 
folii excedenti, pedunculi herbacei, coloris bractea minuta 
squamiformis sub ramulam et florem quemque. Pedicelli 3- 
31 linealis utrinque incrassatiusculi, basi articulati. 
Flores minuti viridescentes; toro  lutescenti, tetrameri. 
Calyx minutus 4-partitus vel potius sepal 4 dentifor. e pedi- 
celli dilatato. 
Petala totidem reflexa apiculo inflexo oblongo-ovata 
zstivatione valvata. 
Stam. 8 hypogyna, his sepalis opposita, paullo majora 
filamenta e basi extrors. curvata erecta, albida, subulata. 
Antherz ovato-sagittatze erect mucronate, albz, biloculares 
basi affixe. 
Torus magnus conspicuus luteus ambitu subcrenulatus 
placentiformis ovarium extus cingit. et amplectibus. 
varium fere toroimmersum. Stylus 4-loculare. Stigma 4- 
lobum, 4-angulat. lobis petalis oppositis. Ovula bina curvis 
loculo anatropa pendulo appensa. 
Oss. The observations of Wight. and Arnott in a note re- 
garding the torus seem to me quite correct, the ovary is in fact 
seated in the shallow hollow of a large disc, but no more 
than the base is inclosed. 
Has. Malacca Ninghull. January 30th, 1845. 
PARAPLEXIS. 
Paraplezis, Pl. DLXXVII. Fig. I. 
upa exacte globosa, lete coccinea levissima nitida, mag- 
nitudine fructus Ardiseze ejusdemque coloris vertice vestigio 
minuto obliterato, stigmatis punctiformis. 
Putamen tenue subglobosum osseum, vertice hinc hili situ 
oppositum, crassiusculum griseo-album. Funiculus putame" 
hinc adnatus, lateraliter apicem loculi versus currens, infra 
apicem ad locum crassiorem, putaminis terminans, T 
Tanor, inferne AM uMioE factus, : 
