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ed; segments oblong, oblique. Sta- 
mina five, within the tube. Ovary double. 
Styles two, shorter than the stamina. 
Stigma small. Follicles two, baccate, as 
large as citrons, red, diverging, subglobose, 
exuding a milky juice when cut, with a 
ridge along the middle, and one at each 
Tou which unite in a short blunt point, 
one-celled, many-seeded; the cell is re- 
curved into the form of a crescent. Seeds 
contained in red fleshy arils or lobules, 
which are angled by mutual compression, 
oblong, chrysaloid, hollowed on the one 
side with incurved rounded edges, convex 
on the other, and longitudinally corrugated. 
Embryo contained in a conform albumen ; 
cotyledons flat, round, cordate; radicle 
cor. cylindrical, longer than the co- 
tyledon 
W. J. 
Foliis subrotundo-ovatis mucronatis carno- 
sis, floribus terminalibus solitariis. 
In the neighbourhood of Bencoolen. 
A parasitic Shrub growing on trees, with 
smooth greyish bark, and somewhat dicho- 
. tomous branches. Leaves opposite, petio- 
— subrotund with a short reflexed point, 
: with reflexed margins, very smooth, 
thick, and fleshy. Petioles compressed, 
embracing the branch, and furnished with 
an intrapetiolar ligule or stipule. Flowers 
terminal, solitary, nearly sessile, embraced 
at the base by a few sheathing bracts. Ca- 
lyz five-parted. Corolla of a dull yellow- 
ish-white colour; tube about four inches 
long, expanding into a five-parted limb. 
Stamina five, rising a little above the tube; 
anthers large. Style little more than half 
the length of the tube. Stigma four-lobed. 
Berry as large as a small egg, seated on 
the persistent calyx, ovate, rather pointed, 
two-celled, many-seeded ; seeds nidulant. 
Oss. This is the fifth species of Fagea 
FAGRÆA CARNOSA. 
x - that I have met with in the Malay islands; 
. the others have been already described in 
Roxburgh's Flora Indica. The F. race- 
mosa grows to be a small tree, and the F. 
volubilis, doubtfully proposed by Dr. Wal- 
lich as a distinct species, is the same plant. 
The F. auriculata is a large shrub, and li 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS, 
from the size of its flowers is the most : | 
splendid of the genus. I originally met 
with it at Singapore, but have since found — 
it also at Tappanuly; the following parti- —— 
culars may be added to the des: x 
given by Dr. Wallich: E 
F. auriculata. Flowers terminal, ge- x 
nerally three, rarely five, on short pedicels, — 
Corolla very large, yellowish- 
Stamina inserted near the bottom 
of the tube. Stigma large and flattened. — 
Ovary two-celled, polysporous ; the edges — 
of the placente revolute. it as large 
as a duck's egg, acuminated by part of the 
persistent style ; seeds numerous, nidulant. 
Ede 
W. J. 
Foliis linearibus acuminatis glabris, corym- 
bis terminalibus. 
Bunga Saluang, Malay. Native of the 
west coast of Sumatra. 
A Shrub, with round smooth iran 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, linear, ta- 
pering to the point, acute, about nine inches 
long, by little more than half an inch broad, 
entire, with revolute edges, very smooth. 
Stipules interpetiolar, subulate, longer than 
the petioles. Corymbs terminal, erect, tri- 
chotomous. Flowers red. Bracts small, 
acute. Calyx small, four-toothed. Corot- — 
la; tube long, slender; limb spreading, | 
four-parted, segments lanceolate, acute. — 
tamina four, east with the lacinie of — | 
the corolla. Style a little longer than the E 
ube. Stigma clavate. Fruita berry. — —— 
Oss. e long narrow leaves readily xe 
distinguish this species; it is a handsome, a4 
delicate shrub. eS a 
IXORA NERIIFOLIA. 
its 
LECANANTHUS. W. J. 
PENTANDRIA MonoGynia.—Nat. OE. 
RUBIACER. Juss. 
Calyx campanulatus, ampliatus, B 
Corolla tubo 
brevi, limbo 5-parti ; 
lare, polysporum, placentis cen 
connexis. Stylus bifidus. Stigmata 
inearia crassa.— Frutez, 
