662 pentandbia monogynia. Posoqueria. 



two-lobed. — Drupe thin, o.al or roundish, crowned with the short, 

 mostly truncate tube of the calyx, nearly as large as a walnut, slight- 

 ly ribbed, covered with short, separable villosity. Putamen thin, 

 two-valved, containing a great number of seeds which lie flat on each 

 other, in a soft fleshy pulp, and form two semi-ova'e bodies, attach- 

 ed to two opposite short ridges, produced by the inflected margins of 

 the shell and forming an incomplete dissepiment. 



Obs. This tree ought perhaps to be placed under Posoqueria which 

 genus as well as Getiipa it resembles in its fruit. — N. W. 



15. G. tubifera, Wall. 



Sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves cuneate-oblong, petioled, slight. 

 Jy scabious above, pubescent underneath. Drupe round, uneven, 

 crowned with a very long truncate, calycine tube. 



I have only found this in fruit at Singapore, in October. 



AH the young parts are resinous. Leaves in closely approximate 

 pairs, from five to six inches long, ribbed, ending in a short-acumen, 

 tapering downwards. Petiol an inch long. — Drape almost exactly 

 globular, aniuch and half in diameter, uneven, and dotted- Putamen 

 very thick, divisible into eight valves — I have observed another 

 species in fruit on the same island, resembling it in general habit 

 and leaves, but differing in the fruit being rather smaller and smoother, 

 not crowned with any tube, but with five minute teeth, containing a 

 five valved putamen, 



I hope to be able to obtain better and flowering specimens of 

 both, and to furnish a mjre detailed description herealter.— N. W. 



POSOQUERIA, Aubl. Juss. Lanark, and Gaert. also 



Ceriscus of' Guert. ' 



Calyx, five- or six cleft. Corol tubular, border from five- to six- 

 parted. Germ inferior, two-celled ; ovuta numerous, attached to a 

 free receptacle from the ceatre of the partition Berry two-celled. 



