420 fENTANDKIA MONOGYNIA. ItW* 



with most numerous, parallel, capillary, transversal veins, as in Ven- 

 tilaoo madraspalana ; from six to ten inches long. — Petiols about 

 an inch long, slendensh, furrowed above. — Stipules none. — Racemes 

 axillary, erect, slender, cyliudric, three or four together in a fascicle, 

 rarely solitary, equalling the leaves in length, ebracieate, many- 

 flowered, sometimes with a branch or two at the base. — Common 

 peduncle from half an inch to two inches long, pubescent and a little 

 angular as is also the rachis. — Flowers numerous, approximate, two 

 or three fascicled, yellow, fragrant, equalling their pedicels : the 

 latter are naked, sub-clavate, three lines long. ^Estivation conical, 

 ■valvate. — Calyx very small, divided into five, somewhat remote, subu- 

 late lacinice. — Corolla pentape talons, much longer than the calyx, 

 between and within the lacinise of which it is inserted ; petals linear? 

 lanceolate, acuminate, about three lines long, reflected upon the pe- 

 dicel, broadish atthe base. — Stamina five, erect, equalling the petals 

 and alternating with them ; filaments subu ate, inserted below and 

 opposite to the calycine lacini?e ; anthers ovate, erect, bilocuiar.— 

 Ovary sub-turbinate, semi-inferior, two-celled; that part which ia 

 above the bottom of the calyx is conical, divided by two opposite fur- 

 rows so as to appear almost double, aud surrounded by a fleshy, ob- 

 scurely five-lobed, convex disc ; the lower part is turbinate ; ovula, 

 numerous, imbricate, ascending, attached to the septum. Style ra- 

 ther shorter than the filaments, columnar, erect, obscurely two? 

 furrowed. Stigma fleshy, capitate. — Fruit not seen. — N. W. 



3. I. }fragrans, Wall. 



Heaves opposite, cuueafe-lanceolate, entire. Raceme terminal, 

 with tetrandrous, or pentandrous, sub-sessile flowers. Ovary inferior. 



Native of the island of Singapore, where I found it in blossom itt 

 October. 



A branchy shrub, five or six feet high. Branches round, with 

 brownish, smooth bark, sub-opposite, while young villous.— Leaves. 

 approximate, opposite, lanceolate, rather broader towards their upper 

 end, hence sub-cuneate, cuspidate-acuminate, most entire, attenu- 



