lfi PHANEROGAMIA. 



8 inches long in the specimens, repandly serrate with small teeth, 

 glabrous, or minutely pubescent underneath when young, prominently 

 straighUveined, in the manner of a Chestnut leaf, the veins or ribs rather 

 dose, about 20 on each side, connected by a reticulation of minute 

 transverse veinlets. Petioles an inch or two in length, thick, dilated at 

 the base, winged for their whole length by a decurrent prolongation of 

 the lamina, or rather, by a pair of wMly adnate stipules. These 

 sheath the apex of the stem and enclose the bud in gemmation (there 

 are no bud-scales) ; the clasping insertion separates by a clean scar 

 soon after the leaf expands, and the line of separation extends from 

 below upwards, cutting these stipular wings away from the petiole, 

 and at length they break away from the lamina, to which they are 

 united by an obversely wedge-shaped apex, adapted to a narrow sinus 

 of the blade itself. Peduncles solitary, terminal, becoming lateral and 

 opposite the leaves by the continuation of the stem, pubescent, longer 

 than the petiole, usually two-flowered, sometimes one-flowered, the 

 apex articulated with the flower. Sepals 5, orbicular, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, or the exterior minutely puberulent outside, strongly imbri- 

 cated in aestivation, persistent. Petals 5 (in the bud obovate), 

 "white," deciduous. Stamens indefinite, inserted in several series 

 into the dilated base of a thickened torus, the exterior shorter: 

 anthers linear, longer than the filaments, adnate (introrse?), the 

 inner successively longer and recurving over the outer series. Ovaries 

 12 (or sometimes 10?), uniserial, united by the greater part of the 

 length of the ventral face to a thickened central prolongation of the 

 axis. Styles terminal, distinct, long and filiform, erect with the 

 upper part recurved, persistent. Stigma strictly terminal, emarginate. 

 Ovules 10 or 12 in each ovary, occupying nearly the whole length of 

 the ventral suture, in a double row, horizontal, on short and thick 

 funiculi, globose-pyriform. Mature fruit unknown. Immature and 

 partly grown fruit a ring of 12, apparently follicular, ovate-oblong, 

 compressed carpels, coalescent by their narrow ventral face only, for 

 half their length or more, to the thickened but dry axis, several- 

 seeded. Arillus none ? The fully expanded flower would probably 

 measure about two inches in diameter. 



The genus Capellia was proposed by Blume (in his " Bijdragen tot 

 de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie," Part 1, p. 5), in 1825, for a tree 

 found in the mountains of the Island of Nusa Kambanga. I am not 



