DESCRIPTION OF 
RHOPALA OVATA. W.J. 
Foliis subsessilibus ovatis utrinque acutis C 
integerrimis, pedicellis brevissimis cum 
calycibus ovarlisque levissime tomen- 
tosis. 
Found at Tappanuly. 
A small Tree. Leaves alternate and 
opposite, almost sessile, broad, ovate, acute, 
sometimes acuminate, entire with revolute 
edges, very smooth, nerves distinct; ten 
inches long by six broad.  Petiole none, 
save the thickened base of the middle 
nerve. Racemes below the leaves from 
former axils.  Pedicels two-flowered; a 
bract at the base of each, and at the sub- 
divisions. Perianth, together with the 
pedicels, slightly tomentose or nearly 
smooth. Nectarial scales four. 
W. J. 
Dianpria MowoGYN1A,—Nat. Ord. 
OLEINE. 
LINOCIERA ODORATA. 
Foliis lanceolatis utrinque acutis glaberri- 
mis, paniculis axillaribus foliis brevio- 
ribus. 
At Natal, and on Pulo Mosella. 
A large Shrub, with subdichotomous 
branches. Leaves subopposite, short pe- 
tioled, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both 
oblong. Calyz four-parted. Corolla white, 
almost four-petaled; petals long, linear, 
united in pairs by means of the filaments, 
slightly cohering at the other divisions. 
Stamina two; anthers large, e inate 
at the apex. Ovary two-celled, each cell 
containing two linear pendulous parallel 
9tula. Style scarce any. Stigma bifid. 
In point of interest, the “Third?” Memoir, 
. asit is called, of Mr. Jack, far exceeds the t 
previous ones, as it -contains thst gentle- 
Man’ a 
MALAYAN PLANTS. 259 
Rafflesia Titan (R. Arnoldi, Br.); Dry- 
obalanops Camphora, which yields the 
amphor of Sumatra, the most precious 
and costly of all the Camphors ; the Sagus 
lævis of Rumphius, which affords the Sago 
of Sumatra and Malacca; the Sfagmaria 
verniciflua, from which the lacquer or var- 
nish, so highly prized and so ism 
employed by the Japanese, is pre 
and lastly, four species of that highly cu- 
rious genus, Nepenthes ( Pitcher-plant), of 
which two are entirely new. I have rea- 
son to think that the present Memoir is 
very little known in this country, as I have 
never seen it quoted, nor met with any 
copy but that which has been kindly lent 
me by the mother of its lamented author. 
This number of the Malayan Miscellany is 
— date, and only bears the title 
NDIX. Descriptions of ELO 
Pii by William Jack. No. 
RAFELESIA. W. J. 
Diascia GYNANDRIA. 
Perianthium monophyllum ventricoso- 
campanulatum, fauce coarctata nectario 
annulari incumbente coronata, limbo 5- 
partito subreflexo, laciniis rotundatis; Co- 
lumna  fructificationis maxima, crassa, 
stigmate truncato coronata, disco processi- 
bus pluribus corniculatis echinato. 
Mas. Anthere numerosa, globose, ses- 
7 siles, sub stigmate in orbem disposite, apice 
* poro umbilicate, substantia cellulosa. 
EM. 
Semina minuta, nidulantia in 
substantia rimosa baseos columns, cui an- 
there deficiunt. 
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RAFFLESIA TITAN. 
Sumatran name, Peliman Sikuddi, or 
Devil's Siri- 
Native of the forests in the interior of 
Sumatra, particularly those of Passummah 
Ulu Manna, where it was first discovered 
v Sir T. S. RAFFLES, on his journey into 
hat PES in 1818. 
This gigantic flower is parasitic on the 
Pin stems and roots of the Cissus an- 
EIS most wonderful of all plants, the gustifolia, Roxb. It appears at first in the 
