658 MYRTACEE. 
the scales become enlarged foliaceous during germina- 
tion, they will not, I think necessarily become plumularily, 
some cotyledons during germination becoming decidedly 
leafy. 
On the whole, this peculiar embryo appears to me dis- 
tinctly analogous to that of Dracontium and in a less degree 
to that of Cryptocoryne. 
The leaves are distinguished from those of B. racemosa 
by the cordate or even bi-auriculare base, and by the con- 
sequent less spathulation. 
Can this be B. alata Wall. Cat. e Moulmein. 
Species distinct, fruticosa, racemis erectis paucifloris, lo- 
culis ovarium uniovulatis, ealyce basi gibberibus. Fructibus 
conoideis, basi alis carinisve amplis (gibberibus amplia- 
tis.) 
Has. In limosis ripis rivuli Malacca consociata cum 
Tylophora, Cerbera, Barring. racemosa. Pandano, Po- 
lt is here, that we have a direct passage Ternstramiacee 
and Guttiferze, Lindley says no characters have as yet been 
assigned to these plants by which they may be known from 
Myrtaceæ except their alternate dotless leaves, yet under 
Lecythidacez, he says that though combined by D C. 
and others with Myrtacez they differ most essentially in 
their alternata often serrated leaves without pelluced dots. 
A ætidią cannot t belong here. 
1. Plant reduced about $. 
2. Flower bud. 
