445 PENTANDRIA MON0.GY1WIA* Varecft, 



2. V. lanceolata, JR. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolar. Flowers in axillary fascicles^ 

 An erect, shrubby plant, a native of Pulo Pinang. 

 Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate ; veins nu- 

 merous, simple and parallel: smooth on both sides.— Stipules with- 

 in the leaves, lanceolate, chaffy. — Flowers small, numerous, collect- 

 ed on short-peduncled, axillary, compound corymbs, pale yellow.— 

 Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets oval, concave, permanent.-— Petals five, 

 lanceolate, expanding, permanent. — Filaments five, shorter than the 

 petals, incurved, united at the base into a ring round the lower half 

 of the germ. Anthers arrow-shaped, erect. — Germ superior, ovale, 

 fcairy. Style longer than the stamens, hairy. Stigma simp:e. — 

 Capsules thiee-iobed, leathery, one-celled, evalvular 8 .— Seeds several, 

 affixed to three, vertical, parietal receptacles, on the inside of the mid* 

 die of the lobes of the cupsules, 



Obs. by N. W. 

 I have specirrens belonging probably to this plant, which were 

 collected at Pinang by W. Jack who, in a Mss. note says : " 1 am 

 al a loss what to make of this shrub. 1 thought it might be a I are i a 

 (according to Roxburgh) but the capsule is one-celled, three vahed, 

 with parietal placentas; the calyx five-leaved ; corolla five-petalleu ; 

 stamina five, with filaments united at the base in an annular tube sur- 

 rounding the ovary." — I venture to say it is certainly not a Vareca % 

 and 1 even doubt whether any of the other species recorded above 

 belong to that genus. — V . heieroclita, blossoms freely every year, but 

 has never shewn the least disposition to produce fruit. — N. VV. 



3. V. heieroclita, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-lanceolar, crenate. Flowers axillary, crowd- 

 ed, sessile. 



A small shrub, received into this garden from General Martin at 

 Lucknow. Blossoms in October. 



Stem short and slender ; bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 



