Durio z/bct/iimts of Linuatis. 269 



Aril/i horizoutaliter aut oblique incumbentes loculamento 

 conformes, irregulares: mcdii majorcs, supremus infimus- 

 qilfe attciuiati ; onmes sublobati, crassi, carnoso-mucosi, 

 tencrrimi, albi, ad inutuum contactuin oblique truncati, 

 latere interno cum centre rructus pistillari arctissime con- 

 nati, ceterum liberi, membrana teuuissima pellucida sepa- 

 ratim obducti. 

 Testa ex duabus paginis conferruminatis conflata: pagina 

 exteriore solida, duriore ; interiore suberosa, subcellulosa; 

 cellulis fiuidum i'uscum coercentibus. 

 Perispcrma nullum. 



Embryo dicotyledonous, testa? eavitatem explens, rectus. 

 Cotyledones am vgdalino-carnosa\ ovato-oblongae, parte super 



riore conferrumjnata?, interiore libera 1 , incisae. 

 Hadirii/a intra extremitates cotyledonum liberas latens, in- 

 verse subpyramidalis, obsolete tetragona. 

 Obs. 1. Though this deseri{)tion does not in every point ex- 

 actly answer the characteristic of the order of the Makucece., as it 

 now stands; yet it cannot be denied that many characters which I 

 have pointed out, such as the double calyx, the connected stamens, 

 the conglomerated anthers (which we observe exactly similar in 

 several other Malvaceous plants, for instance, in Bombax pentan- 

 (Iruni), nay even the fruit itself, so anomalous at first sight, strongly 

 indicate at least the neighbourhood in which the Durion is to be 

 placed in natural arrangement. The place assigned to it by Jus- 

 sieu is w ananted by the idea which this naturalist entertained of 

 the gormen being stipitate, and bv the scales on the under surface 

 of its leaves, which very much resemble those that cover the sur- 

 face of the leaves of several CMpparides 1 ; but the first character, as I 

 have shown, is erroneous, and the other is of less importance, and 

 only indicative of the affinity subsisting between both families. 



' Obs. 2. 



