Webtr*., fENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 5§7 



Panicles lateral, opposite to a leaf or a branch, alternate, sub-sessile, 

 round-ovate, two-thirds shorter than the ieaves, much sub-divided, di- 

 or tri-chotomous, wilh numerous white, ternate, pcdicelled flowers,. 

 —Peduncles pubescent, divaricate, compiessed. Bractes lanceo- 

 late, acute, ciliate, opposite or lernate unuei the sub. divisions. — 

 Calyx nearly tubular, its mouth a little widening, five-toothed, ci.i- 

 ate.— Corolla infundibuliform, with some slkv adpressed hairs on 

 the outside; tube about four uns long, widening; limb five-cleft, 

 with linear, long, spreading stgm nts ; mouth and upper part of the 

 inside of the tube beaided ^\iih long, white hairs, which concea. the 

 capillary filaments. Anthem very long, spreading. — (Jiar y obu\ate, 

 smooth, prominent within the bottom of the calyx, two-celled ; 

 ovula numerous, imbricate on a parietal placenta. Style smooth. 

 Stigma long, clavate, entire, elevated above the mouth of the tube. 

 Ois. This species comes very near to W. macrophylla ; but its 

 panicles are not terminal, nor have they the long peduncles of the 

 latter. — The structure of its ovary, as also of that of the following 

 •pedes much resembles that of a Rondeletia. — N. W. 



7. VV. aurkulata, Wall. 



Arborescent. Leaves ovate-oblong, emarginate and unequally 

 two-lobed at the base, nearly sessile, the axils of the nerves glandu- 

 lar underneath. Panicles terminal or lateral, brachiate, on flattened 

 peduncles. Throat of tie corolla swelled, elevated and bearded. 

 Ovary many-seeded. Stigma two-lobed. 



Also communicated bv Mr. Porter from Pinang, growing in 

 similar situations and blossoming at the same time with the pre- 

 ceding. 



Arboreous, erect, perfectly smooih.— Leaves tough and coriace- 

 ous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, seven inches long, somewhat contract- 

 ed towards the sub-sessile base, which is emarginate and two-lobed, 

 the lobes small, rounded, unequal; the axils of the nerves are exca- 

 vated and glandular en the underside, which is also the case wilh VV. 



