EwlJiemis. pentandria monogynia. SOS 



—Flowers alternate, pedicellate, often in pairs. There is a single 

 leal-like bracte and several smaller ones at the base of the pedicels, 

 less deciduous than in the preceding. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets 

 ovale, filiate. Corolla white, spreading, five-petalled ; petals iance- 

 olate, acute. — Stamina rive, erect, conniving, hypogynous ; filaments 

 very sliort ; anthers yellow, oblong, broader at the base, two-cell- 

 ed, ctlls adnate to the sides of the filament prolonged above into an 

 acumen, opening at the top by a pore. — Ovary oblonj, acute. Style 

 a little longer than the stamina. Stigma simple. Berry red, five- 

 angled, acuminate, composed of a whitish farinaceous pulp, and 

 containing five seeds, each enveloped in a tough, fibrous anhus and 

 in structure the same as the preceding. — W, Jack, I. tit. 



3. E. ? eleganlissima, Wall. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, finely acuminate, 

 sharply and minutely serrulate, the nerves reticulate and uniting in 

 two or more sub-marginal arches. 



A native of the same place as the preceding, and of the contigu- 

 ous isles. 



A small shrub, with slender, round, greyish branches, smooth on 

 all its parts. — Leaves alternate, spreading, much longer than their in- 

 terstices, from six to nine inches long, sometimes narrow-lanceolar, 

 conaceous but thinner than those of the preceding two species, ser- 

 rulate, the serratures very numerous, small and sharply cuspidate, 

 greatly tapering at both extremities, finely acuminate, glossy and po- 

 lished above, shining underneath, vascular on both sides, chiefly be- 

 neath, of a light green colour. The disposition of the nerves is so 

 elegant and beautiful as to set all description which I can give at de- 

 fiance, and to exceed any other instance that has come under my ob- 

 servation. 1 remember well that Dr. Roxburgh used to consider the 

 leaves of his Aquilaria Agallochmn in this respect unequalled, but I 

 am satisfied he would have conceded the palm to my plant, had he 

 had the happiness of seeing it, as I have done in its wild, or even in 



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