661 PLANTS JAVANICA RARIORES. 



strikingly applicable. It is not my intention, however, to 

 propose any change in this respect, for in both cases the 

 names must be considered as established. 



251] The affinity between Euphorbiacece and Antidesmem is 

 rendered more obvions by the addition to the latter of 

 Bennettia. But the structure of ovarium and the mono- 

 spermous drupaceous pericarpium readily distinguish them. 



lodes and Sarcostigma also agree with Bennettia in 

 several important points, particularly in their unisexual 

 minute flowers, ovarium with two pendulous ovula, mono- 

 spermous drupa, and in most respects in the structure of 

 seed. They differ in habit, being twining or scandent 

 shrubs without stipules, in their monopetalous persistent 

 inner perianthium or corolla, in aestivation and reduced 

 number of stamina, in structure of antherae, and in the 

 embryo being inverted, not transverse. 



Obs. II. Several species of Bennettia have been dis- 

 covered in India. One of these, first observed by the late 

 Dr. Jack, at Singapore, was referred by him, though doubt- 

 fully, to Limonia. Dr. Blume, who had observed a plant 

 of the same genus in Java, for which he adopted the 

 generic name here proposed, having liberally communicated 

 specimens and drawings of this plant, it proves to be iden- 

 tical with Bennettia javanica ; and lastly, Dr. Wallich has, 

 in the concluding distribution of his great Indian Herba- 

 rium, noticed several plants of the same genus, to which he 

 has also given the name Bennettia. These plants so closely 

 resemble Bennettia javanica and each other, that they are 

 chiefly distinguishable by minute, but, as I believe, con- 

 stant differences in their male flowers, and in the form of 

 their fruits. Of these supposed species the differential 

 characters are here subjoined. 



Bennettia Wallichii, masculi floris petalis concavis vix 

 cucullatis glabris, antheris rudimentoque pistilli imberbibus, 

 drupis transversim oblongis duplo latioribus quam longis 

 varicosis, ranmlis foliisque utrinque glaberrimis. 



Boo. Nat. India Or. Tavoy. Wall. List, 8585 E. 



