Palrymplea* FENTAVDRIA monooynia. 421 



ated downwards, acute at the base, smooth, and shining above, with 

 a few scattered hairs underneath, nerves sub-iransversal, curved, unit- 

 ing in sub-marginal reticulate arches; three inches long— Petiol 

 short, round, villous, slightly furrowed. — Stipules none. — Spike ter- 

 minal, erect, c> lindric, slender, longer than the leaves, measuring 

 four or five inches in length, villous on all its parts, resting on a 

 short peduncle which, together with the rachis is villous, rai her an- 

 gular. — Flowers yellow, exquisitely fragrant, fascicled, generally ter- 

 nate, approximate, sub-sessile, spreading, pubescent on the outside. 

 — Calyx very small, cup-shaped, with four or five, triangular, acute 

 teeth ; supported by one or two linear bractlets- — Corolla with four 

 or five petals, infundibuliform; during aestivation it is cyiindric, ob- 

 scurely four-cornered, vallate ; about four lines long ; petals linear, 

 acute, conniving below, spreading from the middle upwards, pube- 

 scent on both sides. — Stamina four or five, alternating with the petals 

 and a little shorter than they, erect \ filaments lie shy, filiform, with a 

 few scattered hairs on the inner side ; anthers erect, cblong, two- 

 celled, at length slightly recurved.— Ovary interior, ovate, very small, 

 villous, two-celled; ovula numerous attached to the partition, ad- 

 scending. Style columnar. Stigma broariish, truncate. 



Obs. This is a very elegant, delightfully fragrant shrub, of the pro- 

 per place of which 1 am very doubtful, not having seen the seed ves- 

 sel. Its inferior ovary is no obstacle to its belonging to the family 

 of Saxifrages of which Ilea is a member; but 1 suspect that it be- 

 longs to a different genus. — N. W. 



DALRYMPLEA, Roxb. <jjL 



Calyx five-leaved. Petals five, alternate with the stamina. Germ 

 superior, three-celled, cells many-seeded ; attachment of the ovula in- 

 ferior. Berry three- celled. Seeds few, unciform. Embryo subiu» 

 ferior, and furnished with a perisperm. 



In memory of the late Alexander Dalrymple, Esq. author of the 

 Oriental Repertory, &c. 



