en 4 UADIT a a 
tose, persistent. 
- the calyx. Stamens inserted on the ca- 
adn —— as long as the corolla. 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
When long buried in the earth, it is said 
to become petrified. The genus is related 
to Viter, but is abundantly distinct there- 
from. : 
RHODAMNIA. W. J. 
IcosanDRIA Monocynta.—Nat. Ord. 
MyYRTACE. 
Calyx superus, quadrilobus. Corolla 
tetrapetala. Stamina numerosa. Ovari- 
um uniloculare, pluri-ovulatum, placentis 
duobus parietalibus. Bacca unilocularis 
oligosperma.—Arbuscula, folis £rinerviis, 
inflorescentia axillari. 
RHODAMNIA CINEREA. W.J. 
Frequent on the Western coast of Su- 
matra, and the islands which skirt it. Its 
Malay name is Marpuyan. 
There are two varieties of this species, 
the one of which is larger than the other, 
and has broader leaves which are more 
decidedly tomentose below. These dif- 
ferences are scarcely sufficient for a speci- 
fic distinction. 
A small Tree, with greyish, wrinkled bark 
and pilose branchlets. Leaves, opposite 
and alternate, petiolate, roundish-ovate in 
the large variety, and broadly lanceolate in 
the small one, acuminate, very entire, 
three nerved, often with a less distinct 
pair near the margin, smooth above, some- 
what hoary beneath, pubescent, particu- 
larly on the nerves; but in the small vari- 
ety, nearly smooth, with little more than a 
glaucous tinge on the under surface. Pe- 
holes short, tomentose. Stipules Bini 
linear. Peduncles short, axillary, o 
flowered. Flowers white. Calyx ins 
Corolla twice as long as 
simi 
ag o Tira placente. Style one, erect. 
Berry 
, subglobose, crowned with 
bns eid one-celled, esi a few 
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tion, from which, rather than from the 
fruit, the most important characters in this 
family are to be derived. It is peculiar in 
having three-nerved leaves, in which par- 
ticular it has a resemblance to Myrtus to- 
mentosa, but differs widely from that spe- 
cies in its fruit and ovary. 
W.J. 
PoLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ADINANDRA. 
Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, basi bi- 
bracteatus. Corolla pentapetala, petalis 
asi latis, Stamina 30, pluriseriata, sub- 
polyadelphia, interioribus brevioribus ; an- 
theris bilocularibus apice mucronatis. Sty- 
lus unicus, subulatus. Bacca supera, sty- 
lo persistente acuminata, 5- locularis, poly- 
l 
ternis exstipularibus, floribus azillaribus. 
* Dr. Wallich refers this, (List of East 
India Plants, No. 2245,) doubtfully to 
Ternstremia. I have great hesitation in 
considering any of the East Indian species 
so called, to belong to that genus; but as 
to Adinandra, Jack would unquestionably 
have taken notice of the petals being op- 
posite to the sepals, which ought to be 
the case in Zernsiremia. Taking the 
whole of Jack's character into view, I can 
scarcely say how his genus differs from 
Cleyera. The anthers not being hirsute 
is no character, Dr. Wight and I having 
lately described one, from the Peninsula, 
with these organs glabrous. G.A.W. A." 
ADINANDRA DUMOSA. W.J. 
Daun Saribu, Malay. 
Abundant in thickets throughout Suma- 
tra, and various parts of the Malay x 
lands. It grows to be a small Tree; t 
bark is dark brown, and the a are 
smooth. Leaves ET shortly petioled, 
elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends, some- 
times rounded with : an potes acumen at 
M e dc iens recurved, © 
