HAMAMELIS 
150 
small, unappendaged, and each loculanient opens by a pair of valves parting lik 
folding-doors from the median line 
In P. persica they 
much elongated, shortly 
mucronate, and dehisce longitudinally without separation at top and bottom 
In 
pects the plants appear very near each other 
1 
2 
3 
i 
J 
Fig. 1. represents the anthers of Parrotia J acquemontiana , and Fig. 2. those of P. persica. 
Fig. 3. represents the anthers of Hamamelis virginica, and Fig. 4. those of Loropetalum chnente. 
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The -enera Hamamelis and Loropetalum may be briefly described as follow 
Hamamelis. L 
Caly 
profunde 4-lohatus 
v. 
partitus, infi 
ad 
basin adnatus 
PetalaA, linearia 
Stamina 4, squamulis 4 alternantia ; filamentis brevibus ; antheris 
muticis, loculis valvatim dehiscentibus, valvula ab externo latere soluta persistente. 
Ovarium biloculare, ovulis solitariis. Capsula semisupera v. fere supera, hgnosa, 
apice bivalvis, loculicide dehiscens ; endocarpio soluto. 
Arbusculce in America boreali et Japonia, foliis deciduis subcrenatw v. mc 
dentatis. venulis secundariis 5-7 rectis ad marginem parallels. 
qual 
Loropetalum, R. Br. (App. Abel's China, p. 375) 
Calyx quadrifidus, tubo ad ovarium 
adnato. Petala 4, linearia 
Stamina 4, squamulis 4 pan 
alternantia, epig\ 
filamentis brevissimis ; antherarum connective in acumen subulatum producto, lo 
culis in valvulas 2 ab medio utrinque solutas verticaliter dehiscentibus 
Ovarium 
biloculare, ovulis solitariis 
docarpio corneo, soluto 
Capsula semisupera, lignosa, loculicide dehiscens 
Frutexin Chma et montibns Khasi<B wdigena, foliis persistentibus, mtegerrlmis, subtus 
venulis anastomosantibus reticulatis . 
The Anisophyllea which I describe was collected by the late W. Griffith at Malacca^ 
In his collections, now in course of distribution at Kew, there is a considerable number ot 
