68 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Corolla 1} poll. diam. FF. feem.: pedunculi elongati, 1-2-flori. Fructus 
pollicaris, profunde sulcatus, longe rostratus, Semina } poll. longa, lineari- 
oblonga. 
most natural groups, viz. Plagiospermee, to which Momordica belongs, with 
horizontal ovules, and Orthospermee, with either pendulous or erect ovules 
(never, as in this, with one pendulous and the other erect). The con- 
fluence of the male peduncle wit | the petiole is unique in the Order, and 
axilla 
petiole, is still more singular. The corky fruit, often septate in the middle, 
ith the seed erect in the upper cell, Sing pendulous in the lower, recalls 
Cakile amongst Crucifere.—J. D. Hoo 
aa species, R. Welwitschii, will :. es in the ‘ Flora of ta 
Africa.’ 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Ovary and calyx. 3. The same laid open vertically. 4. Imma- 
ture =asaee :—all magnified. 
Prate 1085. 
BREDIA OLDHAMI, Hook.f. 
MELASTOMACER, 
B. Oldhami, Hook. / ; fere glaberrima, foliis lanceolatis subacutis fere 
equilateris quintuplinerviis serrulatis, nervis 2 interioribus altius insertis, 
corymbis multifloris, antheraram majorum connectivo basi breviter producto. 
Has. Island of Formosa, near Tamsuy, R. Oldham, 1864. 
een ramis ramulisque suberectis teretibus. Folia 2-3 poll. longa, 
poll. lata, subcaudato-acumina , imo apice obtuse mucronulata, supra 
luride viridia, subtus pallidiora, subtilissime puberula, costis prominulis, ner- 
vulis transversis exilibus, petiolo stricto $—% poll. longo. Corymbi 2-3 
poll. diam., ebracteati, pedunculi is pedicellisque subelongatis strictis. Flores 
poll. diam. Calycis tubus infundibuliformis, basi ventricosus, dentibus 4 
minutis. Petala Adages acuta. Stamina declinata ; anthere majores 
mectivo basi infra lo ucto, apice 2-lobo, ,_miores connectivo 
non producto. Stylus sigmoi adbedathexias 3 D. Hooker. 
