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fication on the ground of structure, appears to lie in the acceptance of 

 Baillon's suggested name, giving up that of the authors of the Flora 

 Indica. 



The synonymy of Gtiatteria is further complicated by the fact that 

 a large number of species with valvate aBstivation were referred to it 

 by Wallich and others. These, however, were separated by Hook fil. and 

 Thorns, by whom the genus Polyalthia was formed for their recep- 

 tion. Sir Joseph Hooker* refers to Cananga, not only the species C. 

 odorata, but another named G. virgata. The latter plant appears to me, 

 in the light of full material recently received, to be a typical Cyathocalyx, 

 and to that genus I have ventured to remove it. A third species doubt- 

 fully referred to the genus Cananga under the specific name monospermy 

 appears to me from the description (I have seen no good specimen) to 

 be so doubtful that I exclude it altogether. The seeds both of this 

 species and of G. Odoratum are peculiar ; I quote the following excel- 

 lent description of those of G. odoratum from Hooker fil. and Thomson's 

 Flora Indica, page 130. " The seeds are pitted like those of the section 

 Kentia of Melodorum, and of some Gucnrbitacece ; and the inner surface 

 of the brownish-yellow, brittle testa is covered with sharp tubercles, 

 which penetrate into the albumen, taking the place of the fiat plates 

 which are found in the rest of the order." 



Flowers 2 or 3 in. long ... ... 1 C. odoratum. 



,, 1 to 1*25 in. long ... ... 2 G. Scortechinii. 



I. Canangium odoratum, Baill. Hist, des Plantes, I, 213 (in note). 

 A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches rather slender, sub-striate, 

 at first puberulous, slightly lenticellate, dark ashy-coloured when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes broad- 

 ly elliptic, acute, shortly acuminate or sub-obtuse ; the base rounded or 

 sub-cuneate, unequal; quite glabrous, the midrib and nerves puberulous ; 

 main nerves about 8 pairs, ascending, rather straight and slender : length 

 3'5 to 8 in., breadth W5 to 3 in., petiole 5 in. Flmoers 2 to 3 in. long, 

 drooping, in 2- to 3-flowered shortly pedunculate racemes : pedicels 

 slender, 1*5 to 2 in. long, recurved, puberulous, with one median and 

 several basal, small, often deciduous bracts. Sepals free or joined at the 

 base only, about "35 in. long, triangular, tapering to a blunt point, 

 reflexed. Petals linear-lanceolate, 3 to 3*25 in. long and '3 in. wide, 

 adpressed-sericeous when young. Ovaries sessile, narrowly oblong : 

 stigma hemispheric. Pipe carpels from 10 to 12, pedicellate, oblong- 

 obovoid, glabrous, blunt, - 65 to - 9 in. long, nearly black when ripe, 

 pulpy : stalks from -5 to '75 in. long. Seeds 6 to 12, flattened, sub-ovate. 

 Cananga odorata, H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 130 ; Fl. Br. Ind. I, 56 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 40. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 3. Uvaria odorata, 

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