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are small, unappendaged, and each loculament opens by a pair of valves parting like 

 folding-doors from the median Kne. In P. persica they are much elongated, sliortly 

 mucronate, and dehisce longitudinally without separation at top and bottom. In other 

 respects the plants appear very near each other. 



Fig. 1. represents the anthers of Parrotia Jacquemontiana, and Fig. 2. those oi P. persica. 



Fig. 3. represents the anthers of Hamamelis virginica, and Fig. 4. those of Loropetalum chinense. 



The genera Hamamelis ani Loropetalum may be briefly described as follows : — 



Hamamelis, L. Calt/x profunde 4-lobatus v. partitus, infra ad ovarii basin adnatus. 

 Fetala 4, linearia. Stamina 4, squamulis 4 alternantia ; filamentis brevibus ; antheris 

 muticis, loculis valvattm dehiscentibus, valvula ab externo latere soluta persistente. 

 Ovarvum biloculare, ovulis solitariis. Capsula semisupera v. fere supera, lignosa, 

 apice bivalvis, loculicide dehiscens ; endocarpio soluto. 

 Arbusculce in America boreali et Japonia, foliis decidids subcrenatis v. vncequaliter 

 dentatis, venulis secundariis 5-7 rectis ad marginem parallelis. 



Loropetalum, R. Br. (App. Abel's China, p. 375). Calyx quadrifidus, tubo ad ovarium 

 adnato. Petala 4, linearia. Stamina 4<, squamulis 4 parvis alternantia, epigyna ; 

 filamentis brevissimis ; antherarum connectivo in acumen subulatum producto, lo- 

 culis in valvulas 2 ab medio utrinque solutas verticaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium 

 biloculare, ovulis solitariis. Capsula semisupera, lignosa, loculicide dehiscens; en- 

 docarpio corneo, soluto. 

 Frutex in China et montibus Khasics indigena, foliis persistentibus, i/ntegerri/mis, 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 of 



