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men, with pectinated margins, is a modification of that of Caly- 

 cocarpum, and its condyle is nearly evanescent as in Tinomis- 

 cium : the form of its embrjo with divaricated cotyledons, im- 

 bedded in distinct cells of the albumen, places the genus among 

 the Heteroclinieee. 



AspiDocARYA, H. & Th. — Flares dioici. Masc. S^pala 12, in 

 seriebus tematim imbricata, 6 interiora obovata, concava, sub- 

 membranacca, glabra, 3-ncnia, 6 exteriora gradatim minora et 

 angustiora, margine ciliata. Petala 6, aequalia, sepalis diniidio 

 breviora, rotundata, breviter unguiculata, marginibus intra 

 medium auriculatim inflexis, nervis 3 ad medium protenaia el 

 illinc arcuatim nexis. Stamen unicum centrale ; fiUimentwm 

 tenuitcr columnare, sepalis sequilongum ; anthera 6, bilobse, 

 ad Oram connectivi peltato-disciformis connatse, margine rima 

 transversa dehiscentes. — Fl. foan. Sepala et petala ut in masc. 

 Stamina sterilia 6, clavata. Ovaria 3 ; stigma subcapitatum, 

 sec. cl. auct. Drupa 3, oblongo-ovatae, pulposse: ptUamen 

 subosseum, subovatum, lenticulari-compressam, utrinque 

 paulo convexum, facie dorsali carina elevata apice basique ex- 

 currente cristatum, utroque margine in aciem sinuato-pccti- 

 natam vcl truncato-dentatam late expansum, l-locolare; eon- 

 dylus obsoletus, nisi in striam lungitudmalcm discessQs; temen 

 loculo conforme, ovatum, valde compressum : integwmenia 

 tenuiter mcmbranacea, facie ventrali lines obscure longittidi- 

 nali et raphe notata, et hinc ad striam condyli adherentia : 

 embryo intra aUmmen camoftum fere 2-Uminarc simplex in- 

 clusus ; cotyledombut folUceis, oblongis, acutis, valde divaricatis, 

 in locellis sejunctis utrinque poeitis, radicula supere tereti 

 multo longionbus. 



Frutcx scandens India orientalis ; folia ovato-oblonga, subcordata, 

 acuta, et subito attenuata, submeaUfranacea, b-nervia, subglabra, 

 in nervis pubescentia^longe et temdUr petiolata ; panicula race- 

 wtoia, supra-axillaris, folio sttb^tqutuit i flores parvi, viride' 

 teenies. 



1. Aspidocarya uvifera, H. & Th. ; — Sikhim. 



Particulars of thb species will be given in the ' Contributions 

 to Botany,* vol. iii. 



[To be continued.] 



VII. — Observations on Raphides. 



By George Gulliver, F.R.S. 



[Continued from vol. ziiL p. 511.] 



Practical Applications. — At present, these will be confined to 



Dicotylcdoues, and, like all my former observations, entirely to 



