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nor, indeed, is it described as such in the original*. It was this 

 mistaken notion which, probably, induced Jussieu (whose very 

 errors respecting the natural arrangement of plants are often in- 

 dicative of much discernment) to class the plant in question with 

 the Capparides. That it does not, however, belong to this order, 

 but must be transferred to that of the Malvacece, in the proximity 

 of Bombax, Adansonia, or Carolinea, will, perhaps, appear from 

 the following description : 



DURIO ZIBETIIINUS. 



Calyx duph \i •: uterque inferus, monophyllus, subcoriaceus, intus 

 glaber, cxtus nitidis squamis argenteus: squamae minutissimae, 

 patellatae, radiatae, margins erosae, pellucidae, centro puncto 

 nigro notatae. 



Exterior latus, fundo pro excipiendo interiore excavatus, 

 bilobus : lobi lineas novem ad pollicem longi, concavi, 

 obtusi, patentes. 

 Interior pollicaris, urceolatus, medio ventricosus, obsolete 

 quinquesulcatus, basi attenuatus, fundo maculis quinque 

 prominulis (nectariis ?) notatus, ore dentatus : dentes quin- 

 que, recti, acuti. 

 Corolla : Petala quinque, fundo calycis inserta, bipollicaria, 

 squalide alba, unguiculata. Lamina ovato-lanceolatae, pa- 

 tenti-reflexae, integerrimae, sensim abeuntes in Ungues brevi- 

 ores, crassiusculos, longitudinaliter sulcatos. 



* The following is a translation of Rumpf '» own words : — " Exactly in the middle 

 (of the flower) there is a long style, with a yellow head (stigma), situate (the style, but 

 not the stigma) on an oblong, granulous knob (germeri), which becomes the fruit;" 

 which the Latin translator has given thus : — " In horum centro longus continetur stylus, 

 qui luteurn gerit capitulum, quod oblongo insidet granuloso pistillo, quod abit in 

 fructum." 



2 M 2 Stamina: 



