856 ON MELIANTHUS TRIMENIANUS, 
solitary erect ovules and arillate seeds ; characters almost sufficient to 
two genera, Watalia, Hochst. (Rhaganus, E. Meyer), a native of the 
conn 8 i i 
enera, which are indistinguishable by habit, and between which 
the principal character, of the union of the stamens, partly fails in the 
West Tropical African B. paullinioides, wherein the two lower stamens 
unquestionably nothing but the Cape of Good Hope I. major, L., 
oat : 
introduce Himalaya. Specimens of it also occur amongst 
Hohenacker’s plants (No. 1059), under Wallich’s name, from the Nil- 
ghiri, where it is also introduced. I. major, L., minor, L., comosus, 
Vahl., and Dregeanus, Sond., are all well described by Harvey, to 
which must ‘now be added UM. Zrim 
size, quite entire leaflets, and scarlet petals 
Greyia, the only other genus which has been referred to the near 
ogical and Botanical Association” (i., 
14), and in his ‘Thesaurus Capensis”’ (t. 1). 
of uncertain affinity,” with the fol owing observation :— Dr. 
Hooker this genus is regarded as a genuine Sapindacea, of the tribe 
Melianthee. Thoug allow that there are many point agr 
and very numerous 
eeds, and minute, straight embryo are a 
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