200 
bilicate lid; pollen yellow, granules ellip- 
tical. No trace of a Germen. Female 
Flower unknown. Berry about the size 
of a Cherry, round, with a firm reddish- 
brown external coat, and sweet pulp, four- 
locular, surrounded at the base by the per- 
sisting calyx and a few free abortive sta- 
mens, crowned with the four-lobed tuber- 
cled sessile Stigma ; loculament single- 
seeded. Seeds large in relation to the 
berry, reniform-elliptical, compressed late- 
rally, integuments yellowish-brown, easily 
separable into two layers; Cotyledons thick, 
cohering into an uniform cellular mass; 
radicle central, filiform, slightly curved. 
Native of Ceylon.—For the colour and 
several other parts of the description, I 
am indebted to Mrs. Walker. 
Tas. XXVII. A. Male flowering Branch 
Fig. 
1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back 
Branch. Fig.1. Section of the Fruit with its four 
Seeds :— nat. size. 
2. Hebradendron ellipticum ; floribus 
masculis axillaribus, fasciculatis ; sepalis 
s junioribus minoribus; foliis 
lanceolato-ellipticis, apice sensim attenu- 
atis. 
Synonym. 
Garcinia elliptica. Wall. List of Indian 
Plants, No. 4869 (not Choisy in De Cand. 
1. 561). 
I know nothing of this species, but from 
the specimens sent by Dr. Wallich to Sir 
W. J. Hooker’s Herbarium 
from any of 
those received from Mrs. Walker; their 
considerably larger dissimilar leaves, and 
also their very different geographical posi- 
tion, less unlikely to possess natives of Siam 
than of Ceylon, Dr. Wallich’s plants were 
obtained in Silhet, 
NOTES UPON SOME GENERA AND SPECIES OF ORCHIDACEJE 
propose to characterize them on the 
. Occasion, and to avail myself of the op 
V rf 
NOTES UPON SOME GENERA 4 
GOOD HOPE. 
By John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., Prof. of 
tany in University College, London. 
Mr. Drége's valuable collection of 
Orchidacee having been placed in 
hands by Professor Meyer, of Konigsb 
subsequently to the publication of t 
fourth part of the G'enera and Species 
Orchideous Plants, I am not likely to ha 
an opportunity, for some time, of int 
ducing into their proper places the 
species of Vandee and Habenaria 
Ophrydee which it contains. I there 
tunity for making a remark or two upo 
some geographical points connected 
Cape Orchidacee. 
One of the first things that strikes one 
tion of the Cape Flora and that of E 
parts of the world is, that by far the larger 
number of the genera belongs to Ophry- 
dee. Until recent discoveries there were 
more remarkable, as these plants are e 
tremely rare in corresponding latitudes 1 
America and New Holland. quM 
Secondly, the number of Vandee 5 8 
such latitudes. Mr. Drég 
contains nineteen species, 
are epiphytes; and altogether we have 
twenty-eight species of this division 
der. 
ofthe - 
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5 
No one has yet — any species 
we 
repre h Arche, 8 p and : 
an a die D in ‘New Holland, and o8 
ET 
Orchidacee are exceedingly local, for à 
