ht 
Very smooth; coriaceous, paler 
With three strong nerves, and two less cies 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
opposite, or subopposite, short- petioled, 
ovato - lanceolate, terminated by a long 
sharp acumen, entire, very smooth; eight 
inches long. Petioles thickened. Stipules 
none. Peduncles axillary, sometimes from 
the axils of fallen leaves, very short, bear- 
ing a head or umbel of sessile flowers, 
which is embraced by an involucre com- 
posed of several oblong-ovate leaflets or 
bracts. Flowers large and white, resem- 
bling those of the Jasmine. Perianth infe- 
tior, tube long, faux pervious, smooth, 
limb four-parted, segments ovate. Stami- 
na eight, inserted on the faux, exsert, ra- 
ther long ; anthers two-lobed. Ovary em- 
braced by a thin, white, nectarial cup, 
oblong, attenuated into a style, two-celled, 
cells monosporous, ovules attached to the 
summit of the cell by a thread, which pass- 
ing along the back of the ovule, is in- 
serted into its base, so that the ovule 
seems as if doubled upon its filament. 
Style a little shorter than the stamens. 
Stigma capitate, papillous. Berries crowd- 
ed, somewhat pear-shaped, rounded above, 
acute at the base, cortical, two-celled, two- 
seeded. Seed exalbuminous; embryo in- 
verse; cotyledons plano-convex; radicle 
small, superior. 
PTERNANDRA. W. J. 
OcrANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Calyx ovatus, limbo quadridentato. Co- 
rolla 4-petala. Stamina 8, antheris in- 
troflexis, compressis, basi postice calcara- 
tis, bilocularibus, loculis longitudinaliter 
dehiscentibus. Ovarium calyci infra ad- 
natum, 4-loculare, polysporum, placentis 
mede Stylus declinatus. Bacca po- 
lysperma.— Habitus Metastomarum, foliis 
oppositis trinerviis, floribus paniculatis. 
ETERNANDEA COERULESCENS. W. J. 
Native of Pulo Pinang. 
_ A large, smooth Shrub, with round 
branches. Leaves aa shorily petioled 
or subsessile, ovate, acuminate, tapering at 
the base into the short petioles, very entire, 
beneath, 
ones along the margins; the 
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transverse veins are few and not promi- 
nent. Stipules none, but the petioles are 
connected by an interptiolar line. Pant- 
cles oppositely corymbose, short, terminal, 
sometimes also from the upper axils. Pe- 
duncles four-sided, smooth. Bracts small. 
Calyx united to the ovarium beneath, 
ovate, reticulately squamous, almost en- 
tire or obsoletely four-toothed. Corolla 
blue, lighter at the margin, four-petaled, 
petals ovate, acuminate, inserted into the 
calyx. Stamens eight, blue; filaments 
nearly erect, incurved at the apex. An- 
thers large, pointing inwards, compressed, 
elongated behind into an acumen or spur, 
cells anteriorly gibbous, and bursting lon- 
gitudinally. The anthers, before expan- 
sion, are turned downwards, as in the 
Melastomee, but their points do not reach 
much below the top of the ovary. Style 
declinate, about as long as the stamens. 
Stigma conical and rather obtuse. Ovary 
adnate to the calyx, four-celled, polyspo- 
rous, ovules attached to convex parietal 
placente. Berry four-celled, many-seeded. 
BS. In general habit and appearance, 
this plant has a close resemblance to my 
Melastoma glauca, and at first sight ap- 
pears only to differ in its smaller flow- 
ers, and leaves with less distinct nerves 
and veins. In the structure of the anthers, 
however, it differs essentially from Melas- 
toma, and has some affinity to lon; 
in fruit and mode of placentation, it differs 
from both. The ovary might either be 
considered inferior, or superior and adnate 
to the calyx; the anatogy of Melastoma 
has led me to assume the latter. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
( Continued from p. 121.) 
The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who has now 
completed the descriptions of the Fungi 
of this country, for the last part of the 
English Flora, has nearly ready for pub- 
lication a work entitled “ British Fungi, 
consisting of dried specimens of the spe- 
in Vol. V. Part II. of the 
English Fora? /" together with such as - 
