641 Some account of the Botanical Collection. [No. 7. 



Desce. — Planta scaudens, herbacea. Caules angulati, sulcati, 

 parce puberuli. Folia longiuscule petiolata, juniora cordato-hastata, 

 matura fere hastata, acuminata, grosse dentata, dentibus mucrone 

 termiuatis, (basilaribus 1 vel 2 glauduliferis,) subtus ad venas pube- 

 rula. Clrrhi saepe apice dichotomi. Infiorescentia axillaris, puberula. 

 Faniculce masculae foliis saepius longiores. JSractece minutae, subulatae. 

 Flores caduci, inodori, evolutione centrifugi. Calyx profunde 5-par- 

 titus, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, extus puberulis, basi 

 obsolete saccatis. Fetala alternantia, fundo calycis inserta, breviter 

 imguiculata, e basi lanceolata acuminatissima, univenia, aestivatione 

 subimbricata, margine, uti sepala, glanduloso-denticulata. Stamina 

 imo fando calycis inserta, sepalis opposita, omnino soluta ; filament a 

 filiforinia, breviuscula ; anther ce extrorsae, sub-ovatae, uniloculares, 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentes, connectivo gland uloso-papilloso. Pollen 

 lanceolatum, tri-plicatum, immersum globosura, granulosum. E-udi- 

 mentum Fistilli nullum. 



Hacemi faeminei paucinori, flore unico saepius tantum evoluto. 

 Pedicelli prope florem articulati. Calycis tubus subglobosus, verru- 

 cosus. Stamina castrata vel deficientia. Ovarium f inferum, (parte 

 libera conica verrucosula,) 1-loculare ; placenta punctiformes, parie- 

 tales apicem loculi versus. Ovula 2-4, saepius 4, 2 nempe utroque 

 latere, pendula, anatropa ; tegumenta bina distincta. Stylus brevis, 

 crassus, parce puberulus. Stigmata hippocrepiformia. Fructus 

 siccus, pendulus, (pedicello petiolo breviore, infra articulum gracili, 

 supra incrassato,) ovatus, apice stigmatis reliquiis notatus, medium 

 versus annulo exsculptus, aculeis viridibus praesertim infra annulum 

 echinatus, apice subglaber, tactu laevi ad annulum circumscissus. 

 Semina* 2, vel saepius 4, pendula, atro-brunnea, tactu saponacea, 

 compressa, superficie rugosa, margine profunde exarata et varie 

 denticulata. Enibryonis cotyledones ovales, carnosae ; radicula, supera, 

 breviuscula, conica ; plumula conspicua. 



This plant has to a considerable degree the habit of Feuillea 

 tamnifolia, Humb. et. Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. p. 175. 1 140, which 

 appears to be a plant sui generis ; it also appears to have consider- 

 able affinities with Sicyos, with which it agrees in habit. 



* The seeds in the Chusan specimen are plano-convex, and scarcely grooved 

 along the edges. 



