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ferent in shape, and the ovules are undoubtedly numerous, and not, as in M. Kentii, 

 reduced to two. Blume describes P. Kentii as a tree ; but his own specimens, we 

 think, indicate that it is, like the present plant, a climber, 



14. M. pisocarpum (H.f. et T.) ; foliis ellipticis vel ovalibus basi 

 rotundatis vel acutiusculis apice angustatis obtusis sjepius emarginatis 

 rigide coriaceis supra glabris subtus pallidis pube minutissima incanis, 

 floribus axUlaribus soJItariis, alabastris triquetro-subglobosis, carpellis 

 pisiformibus. 



Hab. In sylvis prope Malacca, Griffith! — {v. s.) 



Fruiex verosimiliter scandens, ramosissimns. BamuH foliosi, nigricantes, vix ru- 

 gulosi, glabri, juuiores incauo-puberuli ; gemmse aureo-sericese. Folia 1|— 3 poll, 

 longa, li-l-J lata, pet. -J-poll., in sicco creberrime reticulata, nervia parallehs leviter 

 arcuatis inconspicuis. Pedunculi i-i-poUicares, basi articulati, braeteis 2 minutis 

 squamaeformibus deciduis muniti. Sepala ovalia, basi coaHta, coriacea, granulosa, 

 glabra, in fructu persistentia. Petala exteriora late ovalia, fere roiundata, extus 

 aureo-sericea, intas cinereo-incana, macula basUari (ex sicco atro-purpurea) glabra, 

 ovata ; interiora dimidio breviora, angusie oblouga, dorso sericea, carinato-eonvexa, 

 intus basi excavata, glabra, supra medium triquetra. Stamina connectivi processu 

 subgloboso carnoso terminata. Ovaria oblonga, ovuHs in axi 2 superpositis. StijK 

 oblongi, ovarium fere jeqnantes. Carpella toro capitato glabro umbellatim inserta, 

 4-8 vel plura, ovalia vel globosa, 2-3 lineas longa, pedicello sequilongo, glabra, 

 granulosa. Semina 1-3, superposita, plano-couvexa, rotundata, regulariter foveolata, 

 atro-fusca, margine rhaphe lata percursa. 



This species is very closely allied to M. Kentii, Blume, but the broader emarginate 

 leaves and the smaller flowers sufficiently distinguish it. The terminal process of 

 the stamens, too, is different. 



11. HABZSLIA, Alph. DC. 



Sepala 3, acuta, basi connata. Petala 6, biserialia, sestivatione val- 

 vata, e basi inflata intus conoava, elongato-linearia, apice triquetra ; in- 

 teriora pauUo minora. Torus planus. Stamina linearia, connective 

 ultra antheras dorsales biloculares in prooessum oblongum producto. 

 Ovaria indefinita, oblonga, in conum conniventia, dense strigosa, mul- 

 tiovulata, stylo sequilongo subulato recto terminata. Carpella elongata, 

 cylindrica, numerosa. Semina oblonga, non compressa, septis cellu- 

 losis separata. — Arbores, foliis coriaceis, nervis obliquis parallelis fal- 

 catis subtus prominulis, floribus axillaribus elongatis triquetris. 



This genua was instituted by M. Alph. De CandoUe for the reception of the 

 Vnona Mthiopica of authors, which, however, as we learn from Kichard (Fl. Cubae), 

 has the hoUowed torus of Xylopia, and is therefore perhaps more properly refer- 

 able to that genus. Our materials do not enable us to determine this point ; but 

 the two species described below present all the characters assigned by De Can- 

 dolle to Eabzelia, and one of them has a fruit very like the Guinea pepper of 

 commerce. They much resemble Haizelia Jlthiopica of Alph. De CaudoUe in 

 general appearance, so far as we can judge from a very imperfect specimen of that 

 species, and recede considerably from the majority of the species of Xylopia. The 

 stamens of our Indian species are remarkable for the curious structrae of the anther- 

 cells, which are haiiy, and divided by a series of transverse partitions, which give 

 them an appearance of being jointed. 



1. H. ferruginea (H.f. et T.); foliis lineari-oblongis acutis basi 

 rotundatis subtus fusco-pubescentibus, floribus axillaribus solitariis. 



