'"^ FENTANDHIA MCWOGYNIA. Fieuropelt's. 



ginecs by their affinity to Cordia. From the first mentioned genus 

 it differs in having a live-parted infundibuliform corol bearing the 

 .short stamina near its base; two very short styles, reniform stigmas, 

 a winged, one seeded capsule, and naked seed. From the two others 

 it differs in its habit, in the corolla not being plicated and in the struc- 

 ture and appendage of its fruit. In the artificial system it should 

 properly be placed in Pentandria Digynia; 1 have however, prefer- 

 red introducing it immediately after Porana, which is its natural 

 place. 



1. N\ racemosa, Wall. 



A weak spreading shrub, discovered at Penang in IS 19 by uw 

 most liberal friend Mr. W. Jack, who kindly communicated speci- 

 mens and part of the following description. 



Branches woody, round, ash-coloured, glaucous, covered with hu. 

 . merous, white, elevated dots ; while young pubescent. — Leaves al- 

 ternate, copious, approximate, petioled, ovate, entire, acute at both 

 ends, tapering at the upper extremity, from three to four inches 

 Jong, coriaceous, shining and somewhat canaliculate above, almost 

 smooth, with numerous impressed dots, which are only visible under 

 a lens, and not perforating the under surface, which is pubescent, 

 reticulated, with elevated smooth ribs and sub-opposite, parallel, ob- 

 lique nerves, uniting into sub-marginal arched veins. — Petioles deep- 

 ly furrowed, smooth, scarcely half an inch long. — Stipules none. — 

 Macemes axillary, erect, four or more from the same bud, two or 

 three inches long, shorter than the leaves, sessile ; every part of 

 them densely covered with ferruginous, adpressed, shining hairs. — 

 Common peduncle or rachis filiform, naked.—Flozeers small, scatter- 

 ed, not numerous, on short pedicels, to the middle of each of which 

 is attached a small ovate-lanceolate, acute bracte, decurrent almost to 

 the base, and giving them the appearance of being ciavate. — Calyx 

 somewhat shorter than the pedicel, half hid by the bracte, consist- 

 ing of five equal, oval, obtuse, imbricated, membrane-margined, 



