316 pentandbu monogtnia Geniostoma, 



Obs. Mr. Porter informs me that this is a great beauty when in 

 blossom, as I can easily imagine it to be, judging from the dried 

 specimens only. — The natural affinity of this genus I am unable 

 to determine, especially as 1 have not seen the fruit ; it seems how- 

 ever not far 1 emote from the oider of Terebintkacea, and the di- 

 vision which Mr. Brown calls Connaracea. — If the monophyllous 

 calyx be considered as a spathaceous bracte an affinity may be esta- 

 blished with Jonesia and Macrolobium, which genera the late Mr. 

 Ja^k has justly pronounced to he allied under the same natuial fa- 

 mily, iu Malayan miscell. ii. — N. VV. 



GENIOSTOMA, Font, charact. 22. t. 12. 



Calyx inferior, flattish, five-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 

 a bearded throat, and fhe-cleft bolder. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule 

 twu-valved, two-celled, mauv-seeded- 



1. G. acuminatum, Wall. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, hairy underneath, as 

 are also the rambling, slender branches. Stipules lanceolate, long, 

 distinct. Umbels axillary, crowded, hairy, shorter than the petiois, 



A native of Pulo Pinang, from whence Mr. Porter sent me spe- 

 cimens in flower, gathered on the hills in the beginning of the year. 



Shrubby ; with long, slender, sub-scandent, obscurej four-sided 

 tranches, clothed while young with much adpressed short hairiness ; 

 older ones scabrous, grey. — Leaves opposite, remote, spreading, 

 oblong-lanceolate, perfectly entire, tapering into a long, slender acu- 

 men base acute, from three to six inches long, coriaceous ; smooth 

 and shining above ; underneath with short adpressed hairs, especial- 

 ly along the ramifications of the vessels, while young silky ; rib very 

 slender, elevated, as arealso the oblique, sub-opposite, parallel nerves, 

 . which continue almost imperceptibly along the margins ; veins capil- 

 lary, sub-transversab— Fetiolt slender, round, obscurely furrowed^ 



