34 TEKTANDRIA. MONOGTNIl. Fagr/Sd. 



shy placenta which is united to the partition by a narrow membrane. 

 Style filiform, almost as long as the filaments. Stigma lanceolar, 

 smooth. — Berry ovate, brown, shining, smooth, crowned with a 

 short cylindrical point, supported by the persistent calyx, on a length, 

 ened peduncle, four-celled, with innumerable brownish seeds, im- 

 mersed in a soft pulp. 



Obs. This species is much larger in all its parts than the first, of 

 which I have had abundant specimens gathered at Penang by Mr. 

 Jack. It comes unquestionably very near to F. zeylanica, but seems 

 to differ in being arboreous, and having rounded leaves with a broad 

 apex, on pretty long petiols ; perhaps they are, after all, one and the 

 same species. Conf. Sir J. E. Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia in loco. 

 — N. W, 



4. F. auriculata, Jack. 



Arboreous ? Leaves approximate, oblong-elliptic, acute, taper- 

 ing downwards, petioled ; stipules with two large, oval, pendulous 

 lobes on each side ; flowers axillary. 



Specimens without corols, but sufficiently marked to indicate the 

 genus, and to distinguish them as forming a very remarkable species, 

 were gathered at Singapore and communicated by Mr. Jack. 



Branches very stout, covered with grayish bark, marked with 

 vestiges of the insertion of fallen leaves. — Leaves in most approxi- 

 mate pairs, crowded toward the extremity of the brauches, exceed- 

 ingly firm and leathery, from six to twelve inches long, of an elliptic- 

 oblong form, acute, measuring toward their extremity from three 

 to four inches in breadth, from thence tapering downwards, per- 

 fectly smooth and entire, with sub-transversal, remote, very fine 

 nerves, scarcely at all elevated above the surface, veinless; rib 

 strong and carinated. — Fetiol very thick, scarcely an inch lori«*, 

 broadish, and marginated by the decurrent base of the ieaf, 



convex on both sides Stipula very large and thick, consisting of 



an iatra-petiolary, broad, two-Iobed process, which descends on 



