HUNTBRIA ZEYLANIGA. (Nat. order ApooyneseO 



HUNTERIA. Roxl.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx 5-parted without glands, corol infundibuliform, the jaws naked, lobes 5 convolute, stamens 5 

 inserted on the tube a little above the middle, anthers ovate acute included twice as long as the filaments; ovaries 2 ovoid each 1-celled with 2-4 ovules, 

 gtyle filiform, stigma ovoid short the aptx bicuspidate, beiries 2 distinct ovoid subpedicellate, 2-seeded or 1 -seeded by abortion, pericarp coriaceous not 

 thick, albumen copious, radicle cylindric superior, cotyledons foliaceous elliptic. Trees or shrubs, leaves opposite or verticelled in threes entire glabrous, 

 cymes paniculate teiminal or axillary, flowers small. 



HUNTEMA ZeYLANIOA. (Retz.) A small tree, leaves opposite lanceolate, or ovato-lanceolate, very glabrous bluntly- 

 acuminate entire transversely ven ose, about 5 inches long by l|-2 broad, petioles 3-5 lines long, cymes axillary and terminal 2|-3 

 inches long, flowers yellow about 9 lines long, carpels oblong 1-1| inches long rostrato-acuminate stipitate. — Cameraria Zeylanica, Rets. 

 Obs. 4. p. 24. Hunteria, Tliw. En. PI. Zey. p. 191. 



This tree has only been detected in Ceylon, (if it is distinct from H. corymbosa, Roxb, to which it is certainly closely allied) ; it is 

 common in the warmer parts of the island, and called by the natives Maddeya ; the limber is very fine and close grained and very similar to Box- 

 wood ; it answers wel I for engraving. 



Analysis. 



1. 



A flower. 



2, 



Corol opened. 



3. 



Calyx, style and stigma, 



4, 



Anthers, front and back view, 



5. 



Ovary rather advanced. 



6. 



Thesame cut transversely. 



6«. 



The same cut vertically. 



7. 



Fruit, 



S. 



One carpel cut transversely. 



9. 



A seed. 



10 



, Embryo with its superior radicle 



(The drawing and analysis were communicated by Dr, Thwaites ) 



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