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ous, lanceolate deciduous. Inflorescence axillary, congested, 

 corymbose, cymose or rarely umbellate. Calyx usually entire : 

 limb dilated, cup-shaped, entire or lobed. Corolla usually 

 rotate, but sometimes deeply parted, and then the lobes are 

 triangular : when rotate, the short tube is nearly filled with 

 the disk of the ovary. Berry, so far as I have seen, about 

 the size of a pea, succulent. 



I have described the flowers as occasionally male by abor- 

 tion in place viewing the plants as dioecious, under the be- 

 lief that the female organs only abort, as all the fertile 

 flowers I have met with are bisexual, and the unisexual ones, 

 all male. Such is the case in all my specimens. 



This genus was established in 1826 by Blume, for the re- 

 ception of four Java plants. In 1830, Decandolle added two 

 others, one communicated by Blume, the other from the 

 Island of Timour, since then no further additions seem to 

 have been made. While arranging some collections received 

 from Ceylon, Mergui, and Malacca, I found among them the 

 following seven species, all of which appear new. These 

 generally accord so well with the original generic character, as 

 to leave no doubt of all belonging to the genus, though they 

 do not all quite agree, on which account I have re-construct- 

 ed it, with the view of giving somewhat greater extension. 



1. Axanthes enneandra, (R. W.) arborescent ? extreme 

 ramuli 4-sided, glabrous : stipules subulate, shorter than the 

 petioles: leaves coriaceous penninerved, linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minated, glabrous on both sides : corymbs axillary, solitary, 

 hairy, trichotomous, involucrate at the divisions ; peduncle 

 more than twice the length of the petiole : flowers numerous, 

 small, longish pedicelled : calyx cup-shaped, crenate : corolla 

 rotate ; limb 8-9-cleft : stamens 8-9-sterile ; ovary 8-9-plicate, 

 surmounted with a short abortive style. 



II a b. — Malacca. Griffith. 



