Leucopogon. pentandJiia mokogynia. Sol. 



small, deeply divided into four acute, gland-ciliate segments.—. 

 Corolla four-petalled, much laiger than the calyx ; petals linear-ob- 

 long, obtuse, recurved, about two lines long, yellowish and smooth, 

 without, covered within w ilh dense, short, glandular, orange-coloured 

 villosity ; ciliate.— Filaments four, divaricate, filiform, smooth, oppo- 

 site to the petals, and with them inserted round the rudiment • twice 

 their length. Anthers lanceolate, smallish, incumbent, longitudinally 

 two-celled.— Rudiment oi the pistil short, conical. — Fruit not seen. 

 Obi, This too is a doubtful species. It bears a great likeness tu 

 Samara, which Mr. Brown considers as belonging to Myrsine, 

 though the fruit of that genus seems to differ widely. Except in the 

 al ernate leaves it is much like S. lueta, Linn. (Xlornus zeylanica 

 sylvestris altera, Korakaha dicta, Burm. zeyl. ?b\ t. 31.) — N. W. 



LEVCOPOGON, R. Brown. 



Calyx with two bractes. Corolla infundibuliform, with bearded, 

 spreading limb. Filaments enclosed. Ovary from two to five- 

 celled. Drupe baccate or dry, sometimes crustaceous. — Prodr. fl. 

 Dov. hoil. i. 641. 



1. L. malayanus. W. Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 



Spikes axillary, many-flowered, erect, short. Drupes globular, 

 five-celled. Leaves lanceolate, mucrouate, nearly veiuless, glaucous 

 beneath. 



Malay, Mentada. 



Found abundantly at Singapore. 



A small branchy shrub, with hard dry leaves, exhibiting the peculiar 

 habit of this family.— leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, acute, 

 mucrouate, ve;y entire, very smooth, shining and convex above, 

 somewhat glaucous below and when examined by the microscope, 

 appearing to be covered wjth numerous very minute white dots, firm, 

 infh scarcely peiceptible longitudinal ueives. Spikes axillary, erect. 



