Ophiorrhiza. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 545 



the base of the tube. Anthers linear, erect, nearly hid in the tube 

 of the corol. — Germ beneath, turbinate. Style as long as the sta- 

 mens. Stigma t\vo-!obed. — Capsule obverse reniform, totally com- 

 pressed, (tvvo-lobed); on the outside five ribs run down from the di- 

 visions of the calyx, internally divided into two cells by a transverse 

 partition, opening between the remains of the two fleshy nectanal 

 lips. Receptacle sub-cylindric, free, affixed to the partition near its 



base. Seeds very numerous, angular. 



Obs. From my own knowledge, I can say nothing of the vir- 

 tues, that have been by various authors ascribed to the root of this 

 plant. Indeed I am rather inclined to look upon the whole to be 

 a fiction. 



Additional Obs. by N. W. 



That Kaempfer's description of the fruit of hi3 Mango differs wide- 

 ly from that of Our plant or any belonging to the genus, has been 

 remarked by Gaertner (see quotation to the next species.) — The figure 

 added to Linneus's Materia Med. p. 27. (copied by Plenck, icon, 

 plant, nied. i. 53. t. 90,) is tolerably coi rect as far as regards the leaves 

 and the disposition of the fruit. — I have found the plant in several 

 forests in the valley of Nipal, growing in dark moist places, blossom- 

 ing and producing fruit during the rains ; at Pinang I have seen it on 

 the mountains, growing on rocks. — The root is fibrous. Stem erect, 

 or sub-ascending, as thick sometimes as a goose-quill, a foot hi«b, 

 villous above, simple or with a few bnnches only. The leaves are un- 

 equal in size in each pair, which is more or less the case in all the 

 other species. — Stipules ensifor.m, pubescent, deciduous.-. Common 

 pedin/cle slender, villous, from three to five inches Ion?. —The Ne- 

 palese make no use whatever of the plant.— The Pinang plnnt 

 acquires a red lint on the under-surface of the leaves on being dri- 

 ed; it may perhaps be found hereafter to constitute a distinct spe- 

 cies.— N. YV. 



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