delastrut. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNlAr S93 



many more than those which I have ventured to add. Of this I am 

 ceitaiiij ihut several winch have been received as distinct ones by 

 authors are bv no means different.— Piltosporum is very little differ- 

 ent from Celaitrus, except in the shape of its cotyledons. The 

 species laii described may be either the one or the other; its habit is 

 entirely that of a Fittosporum. 1 have specimens in flower, gathered 

 in Apiil on the Puuuooa mountains of the N. E. frontiers of Bengal, 

 which differ in no ways except in the densely villous ovary, which, 

 in our tree is only slightly pilose. — Among the specimens of the late 

 Dr. Heyne, preserved at the Hun. Company's botanic garden, 1 find 

 some without name or place which are very like C. verlicillata ; but 

 they agree stih better with fruit-bearing specimens gatheiedat Pinang 

 by M''. Jack, which undoubtedly belong to Cortex Jilarius, Rumph. 

 amb. auctuar. 13. t 7, (quoted above p. 31,7.) — Sir J. E. Smith 

 considers it as the same as P. ferrugineum, Ait. kew. ecU 2. ii. 27, in 

 Itees's Cvdopedia m loco. — N. W, 



8. C. micrantha, R. 



Scanoeni, somewhat armed. Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets 

 from five to seven, opposite, oblong, entire, smooth, with simple pa- 

 rallel veins rankles axillary, ii iform, ferruginous. Nectary saucer- 

 fhaped, bearing the siaiuina on its margins, style none. 



A native of the Moluccas, a very doubtful species. 



9- C obtusifolia, R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, obtusely ser~ 

 rujate, very obtuse, hard, smooth. Peduncles axillary, many-flow^ 

 «red. 



A native of the Mauritius, 



Obs. by N. W. 



This I doubt not is Lamarck's C. trigyna (illustr. ii. 94. N. 2699) 

 to which I have alluded above, p. 391- It was introduced from the 



Jdauiitius into the Hon. Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, by 



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