Puate 2723. 
JULIANIA ADSTRINGENS, Schlecht. 
Orbdo NatuRALIs ? 
J. adstringens, Schlecht. in Linnea, xvii. (1843) p. 746 ; a J. molli, 
Hemsl., foliolis supra medium multo latiorib1s fa Be medium edentatis 
facile distinguitur. Hypopterygium adstringens, Schlecht. in op. cit. 
p. 635, 
Ex1co: Valle Grande, ae of Michoacan and Guerrero, at 450 
metres, es Langlassé, 319 
There can be little doubt about this being the species described so 
fully and exactly by Schlechtendal, although he describes the leaves of 
the sterile branches as abrupte subcaudato acute acuminata, ith 
regar fer to the nature of the fruit, whether inferior or superior, 
whether two of the seed-vessels spring from a common involucre or 
Schlechtendal some sixty years ago. It wi seen that the seed- 
vessels are in pairs, and there are indications of some rudimentary 
enveloping organs at their base their apex are remains of styles, 
and possibly also of perianth-lobes ; but we cannot be sure of their 
nature. The seed-vessels examined have three collateral or parallel 
cells, and one imperfect seed was found. 
One can only suggest that this singular genus will prove the type = 
a new natural order having affinities with the Burseracez, 
figured as a tree from twelve to twenty feet = Pages a ml "~ juice 
and a bark like that of the cork-oak.—W. Borrinc HxmsLe 
Fig. 1, apex of fruit ; 2 and 3, cross sections of the same; 4, a seed, Ad enlarged. 
