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externis teretibus, angulis internis hilo opaco notatis, externis 
acutis curvatis. Radicula breviter exserta. 
Camellia spectabilis Champ. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 111 
1850); Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 310 (1851); Seem. Bot. Herald, 
367, t. 78 (1852-7) ; C. reticulata Benth. Fl. Hongkong. 30 (1861) ; 
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or perfect seeds have been seen. 
third possible species is Pyrenaria Jonquieriana Pierre. 
Its three 3-ovulate ovarian cells distinguish it from arid. 
Pierre’s figure of the fruit (Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. t. 120) 
closely resembles that of Tutcheria spectabilis in the nearly 
mature state 
matic position of Tutcheria is clearly next to Pyre- 
naria, which it resembles in its flowers and_ seeds. It is distin- 
_ guished by the dehiscence of its capsule and by its multiovulate 
loculi 
Bauhinia Blakeana, sp.nov. Arbor parva. Folia rotundata, 
petiolis tertiz parti laminarum equalibus. Racemi nonnunquam 
paullo ramosi, 1-3, terminales, 4-7 pol. longi. Flores speciosi; 
pedunculo ad 4 pol. longo, medio vel prope basin articulato, bi- 
bracteolato; calyx concavus, circiter 1 pol. longus, pubescens, 
: rear a ftir 
minus refle 
altero 3, altero 2 dentes gerentibus; pe 
superiore basi intensius colorato, staminibus tertio parte longiora; 
nodia 2-5; pistillum staminibus equale. Fructus ignotus. 
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ttin; regretted because 
Sut of the numerous cultivated species of this charming family 
there is probably none that equals it either in the beauty or the 
