Hymencdiz'ynn. pentavthiia mcntogynia. M9 



In the Linnean system its place is Feutandria Monogynia, in 

 the section with monopetalous superior flowers, and two-celied, two- 

 valved capsules. 



In the natural arrangement it belongs to the family of Uubia- 

 cea, 2d. division, 3d. section, (Juss. in Mem. du Mus. d'hist. nat. 

 vi. 365. et seqq.) 



The habit is that of lofty umbrageous trees, with opposite cori. 

 aceous leaves, large gland-ciliate stipules and compressed branch- 

 lets. Flowers small and inconspicuous, greenish, pubescent, crowd- 

 ed and fascicled in a terminal panicle, or in axillary or term na', 

 slender, simple or sparingly branched, peduncled racemes Common 

 }>eduncles bearing at the apex a lanceolate, arid, long-petioled, convex, 

 veined, floral bracte. 



The chief affinity of this genus is to Macrocnemum, Mussaenda, 

 Cinchona and Exostemma. From the first of these it differs in having 

 winged seeds and smouth stamina ; from the next in the structure and 

 consistency of its fruit; with both of them it has the singular floral 

 leaf or bracte in common ; but instead of originating, as h does 

 in them, from the calyx itself, it proceeds from the apex of the com- 

 mon peduncle of the raceme. From the two last mentioned genera 

 it is easily distinguished by its naked, not bipai tible capsule, and the 

 opposite dissepiment, which splits lengthways, along the axis, in two 

 halves, each of which remains attached to the middle of its cor- 

 responding valve. The seeds are larger, and their wing bifiJ at the 

 base; the flowers much smaller; in the form of the corolla, however, 

 it comes nearest to Cinchona, in the exserted anthers to Exostemma. 



]. C. (Hymenodicti/on, Wall.) excelsa, Roxb. corom. ii 3. t. 106. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong, downy. Stipules cordate, serrate. 

 Panicles terminal and axillary, Anthers sub-sessile in the mouth 

 of the tube. Partition of the capsule contrary. 



Teling. BMiidaroo. 



This species of Cinchona, is a native of the mountainous parts 

 of the Cirears, and chiefly of the vallies ; where it grows to be a 



