Ahjxia. **.NTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 541 



obovate, acute or obtuse, from three to four inches long, exceeding their 

 interstices in length, leathery, smooth and entire, while very young 

 pubescent, tapering downwards into an acute base, on very short, chan- 

 nelled petiols, dark-green, shining above, somewhat glaucous under, 

 neath, with an elevated rib, and capillary, parallel, approximate veins, 

 which unite in a sub-marginal anastomosis ; they only become visi- 

 ble when the leaves are dry — Flowers small, yellowish white, fra- 

 grant, pubescent, small, axillary, pedicelled, twice or thrice trichoto- 

 mous corymbs which are about the length of the petiols.— Bracfes 

 linear, pubescent. — Calyx villous, deeply divided into five linear teeth. 

 '—Corolla hypocrateriform. Lobes of the limb oblong, about as 

 long as the tube, which is a little pubescent within. Ovary villous. 

 Style capillary, long. Stigma sub-capitate. Drupes two on each 

 calyx, oval, sub-acute, of a pale ferruginous colour, obscurely eight- 

 furrowed, supported by distinct pedicels, measuring about three 

 lines in length ; on '-seeded. Albumen deeply ruminated and divid- 

 ed into horizontal paral'el lamellae. 



Obs. This may perhaps ba A. Gynopogon, Syst. veg. iv. 440, 

 (Forstei's Gunopogon Abjxia); but in that the leaves are all quinate ; 

 which in mine probably never exceed the quaternary number, — 

 N.W. 



3. A.l coriacea, Wall. 



Smooth, sub scandent. Branch-lets alternately compressed. Leaves 

 opposite, obovate, obtuse, thick and leathery, shining above. Fas- 

 cicles axillary, equalling the petiols, pubescent. Bractes ovate, ob- 

 tuse. 



A native of the mountains of Pinang, from whence it was com. 

 municated by Mr. Porter. Time of blossoming October and No- 

 vember, 



It is said to.be a small branchy tree. The branches appear to 

 have a tendency to climb; they are perfectly smooth, covered with 

 brownish bark, and slightly compressed towards their apex.— Leaves 

 about three iuchesloug, with an acute, tapeiing base, and a rounded, 



