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corolla, as well as hermaphrodite ones.' As the stamens 

 are inserted on the corolla, what he has taken for rudiments 

 of stamens in his female flowers must have been the hypogy- 

 nous disk. The genus unquestionably belongs to Cyrtandrea, 

 and will range in the sub- tribe Loxoniece, along with the 

 following new genus. The generic character of Is anther a 

 which I have drawn up, is taken entirely from the Ceylon 

 species. In one or two instances I have met with the sterile 

 stamen bearing a small anther, which will account for Nees' 

 describing his plant as pentandrous ; but that it is not always 

 so is evident from the fact that De Candolle, on the authori- 

 ty of Bentham, makes it tetrandrous, 



CHAMPIONIA. Genus Novum. 



Char. Gen. — Calyx 5-partitus, lobis lineari-subulatis, 

 aequalibus. Corolla hypogyna, rotata : tubo brevissimo : 

 limbo profunde 4-partito, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, aequa- 

 libus, calyce longioribus. Stamina 4, asqualia ; filamenta 

 erecta, complanata. Anthera ovato-oblongae, adnatse, liberae, 

 2-loculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Glandula hypogyna 

 nulla. Ovarium oblongo-conicum, l-loculare, placentis 2, 

 parietalibus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Capsula ob- 

 longa, calyce persistente longior, 1 locularis, valvis 2, medio 

 placentiferis. Semina plurima, parva, nuda, ovata, compressa, 



pendula. Testa reticulata. Suffrutex Ceylanicus ; 



caulibus simplicibusf superne mlloso-tomentosis , foliis opposi- 

 tis t vix disparibus, petiolatis, oblongis, basi cuneatis, penni- 

 veniis, reticulatis, integerrimis, supra pilosis t demum glabri- 

 usculis, infra pallidis, pubescente-tomentosis, pedunculis axil- 

 laribus, folio-brevioribus, trichotomis, calycibus pilosis lobis- 

 triatis, corollis glabris, albis. 



1. — Championia reticulata, Gardn. 



Hab. — Saffragam, Moon. Adam's Peak. Mrs. General 

 Walker. Fl. May and August. 



