or obscure species of Plants. 545 



fasciculatis, disci laciniis apice incurvo-bifidis filamento in incisura 

 inserto, ovario glabro, stylo hirsuto — Wall. Cat. n. 7189. — Vareca 

 heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 648 ; (ed. Wall.) ii. p. 246. 



Hab. — In Hindustania ; Martin. 



Folia (in exemplo meo) 1-1 1 poll, longa, basi cuneata, subsessilia. 

 Antherarum appendix lata, loculos parum superans, truncata. 



Roxburgh says of the base of the filaments, that " each side is 

 enlarged with one or more adjoined hornlets, which are bearded at 

 the base." These hornlets are what I consider the lobes of the seg- 

 ments of the disk, and in the only flower, in a sufficiently advanced 

 state, that I found on my specimen, they were quite glabrous, but 

 the base of the anthers, or very apex of the filaments was woolly. 

 I am not quite satisfied whether the disk is, as I have called it, only 

 5-partite, or whether it be not composed of 5 scales distinct at the 

 base ; they appeared slightly connected there, but separated with 

 great facility. 



In all the species which I have examined, there are only three 

 ovules in each ovarium, one to each parietal placenta. 1 hesitate, 

 therefore, in placing in the same genus Vareca moluccana, Roxb., of 

 which the ovary is said to contain " many ovules attached to two 

 or three parietal receptacles ;" but that plant, as described, differs 

 also from Pentaloba in several other important particulars, as in the 

 want of stipules, villous peduncles, young shoots clothed with fer- 

 ruginous pubescence, calyx 5-toothed, villous and caducous, and 

 apparently no disk. Can it be a species of Prosthe&ia of Blume ? 

 a genus as already pointed out by Meisner (Plant, vase. gen. Comm. 

 p. 18,) very closely allied to Pentaloba, but differing by the nume- 

 rous ovules. If so, Roxburgh's description must be considered as 

 erroneous in several particulars. I feel, however, more disposed to 

 refer it to Pitlosporvm, to which genus Iiea umbellata Roxb., and 

 Celastrus verticillatns, Roxb. appear also to belong. 



Hortonia, Wight MSS. 



Flores hermaphroditi ? Perianthium seu involucrum e foliolis nu- 

 merosis concavis imbricatis, exterioribus orbiculatis subcoriaceis per- 

 sistentibus, interioribus subpetaloideis angustioribus tarde deciduis. 

 Stami?ia circiter 7, perigyna. Filamenta brevia, basi utrinque glan- 

 dula pedicellata cucullata truncata submembranacea stipata. An- 

 therw magnse, suborbiculares, biloculares, adnatse, extrorsum versse, 

 longitudinaliter ? dehiscentes. Ovaria plurima in receptaculi piano 

 parce piloso inserta, trigono-subulata, basi uniloculares. Ovulum 

 solitarium, pendulum. Stylus nullus. Stigma obliquum, dilatatum. 



