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cover the whole range of variation observed in the various organs. 
For instance, the sepals are sometimes 3+3 with 3 petals, and the 
ovary is 2—3-celled with 2—4 ovules in each cell. 
e seed is indeed very setae. It isa depressed spheroid, broadly 
ribbed with shallow, narrow furrows, and the attachment to the peri- 
a circular projection corresponding to the chalazal point from which, 
and other points of the testa, nipple-like and club-shaped masses of 
tissue grow into the horny albumen. The minute embryo with 
foliaceous, lobed and undulated cotyledons occupies a cavity at the 
base 
Eh opalocarpus has been doubtfully referred to the Tiliacez, Cap- 
The late Dr. 
paridacee, Ternstreemiacee, and Flacourtiacee. Baillon, 
who described two additional s species—A, triplinervius * Adanithin, 
x. [1871], p. 106) and & thonlirtiotisi (¢ Bull. Soc. Linn. Par.’ i. [1883] 
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least four species in the Kew oe one of which is probably 
R. thouarsianus, Baill. The others a 
R. similis, Hems/. (sp. nov.) ; foliis iis R. lucidi, Bojer, simillimis 
sed fructu verruculoso non echinato differt 
CenTrRaAL Mapacascar: Rev. R. Baron, 3361. 
R. longipetiolatus, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; a R. triplinervio, Baill., foliis 
amplis fructu grosse verrucoso recedit. 
Ramauli oo sericeo- ema ay Folium unicum visum longe 
petiolatum, c m, , fere orbiculare, 5-6 poll. — 
margine ical ton, sis suena tum, basi vix cordatum, a ope 
icem trinerve, venis conspicue veticala kin’ petiolus teres, 2 + po 
longus. Fructus compressus, didymus et 2- locularis vel eabglobewus et 
1- locularis, immaturus usque me 1} poll. latus, undique grosse irregu- 
lariterque spongioso-verrucosu 
Nortn Mapaaascar : Rev. R. Baron, 6479. 
Flo are wanting of all the five species known except the 
cdiginad: RE lucidus. For the fresh specimens used in preparing the 
to Maj i 
, Caleutta, who took much trouble to 
procure flowers and ripe fruit.—W. Borrina Hems.ey. 
Fig. 1, portion of B ashy with the base . a petiole and interpetiolar stipule (or 
connere stipu eS a tetramerous calyx; 3,a petal in which the mucilaginous (?) 
a en i 
ru 
base of the e style e igdateral in consequence of ‘The development o 
the same laid open, csi the one seed and an almost cbbitewated 1 robe ait aie 
