324 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
complex inflorescence with its multitudinous minute flowers is 
almost past belief. On this cluster, ae its flowers so small that 
3000. And yet every flower has its five pe see ‘and five ter 
nating stamens with long filaments. 
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making from Venice to Bohemia, is in possession of various secrets 
long in co dia 5 in regard to the preparation of the glass, colour, 
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NEW CHINESE PLANTS. 
By S. T. Dunn, B.A., F.L.S. 
Tutcheria 
(Ternstremiacearum genus novyum). 
Sepala et petala imbricata; stamina indefinita, cum petalis 
plus minus basi coalita; ovarium 3-6 “agian soe S topalatia; 
ovulis anatropis, lateraliter affixis. Capsula locu ulicide regulariter 
dehiscens, valvis , lignosis , deciduis, columna wee clavata, 
robusta, persistente. Sem 
t mina in loculis 2-5, vari @ angulata, 
pit ta; albumen 0, testa ossea; embryo rectus, radicula in- 
_ feriore; cotyledones longitudinaliter plicate. —Asbor foliis cori- 
aceis, ree Flores axillares, specio 
spectabilis, sp. unica. Arbor viedo ocris. 
cata, * eres 4-1} pol. nega —_ , dense serices, 
incrassatis. Ovarium 4~6-loculare, styli fere ad apicem coaliti, 
4-6, stigmatibus truncatis. Fa spheroidea, 2-3 pol. diam. 
sericea, rugosa, brunnea; semina castanea, nitida, Seeliproiss 
