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racter ascribed to Eurya is not constant, and even if it were, 

 would not constitute a generic distinction. I posses, in my 

 private herbarium, all the hitherto described Indian species 

 but one, besides several undescribed ones ; and one of them 

 I find to be truly hermaphrodite, while on the other hand, 

 Macfadyen, in his Flora jamaicensis, has lately described a 

 dioecious species of Freziera, and I find the same character 

 to belong to a new species from Bolivia. According to 

 Endlicher the embryo of Eurya is exalbuminous, and that 

 of Freziera albuminous. I find it in both to be enclosed in 

 a thin coating of fleshy albumen. I therefore propose that 

 the two genera should be united, and for which Eurya 9 as 

 being the oldest name, must be retained. Freziera may 

 still be adopted as the name of the section under which the 

 hermaphrodite species will rank. 



The Eastern species of Eurya resemble each other so much 

 in general appearance, that it is a difficult matter to find 

 characters by which to distinguish them. The leaves do not 

 afford good distinctions : more dependance is to be placed on 

 the parts of the flower, but particularly the style and stig- 

 mata. The existence or non-existence of hairs on the young 

 shoots, taken along with other characters, is also valuable. 



EURYA, Thunb. 



Freziera, Swartz Fl. Ind. Occident. 2. p. 971. — Eroti- 

 um, Solander ex Swartz Prodr. p. 85. 



Section I. — Eu eurya. Flores dioici. 



1. Eurya elliptica, Gardn. 

 E. ramulis teretibus glabris, foliis ellipticis obtuse acumi- 

 natis retusis basi obtusis margine subrevolutis mucronato- 

 serrulatis coriaceis glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus geminatis 

 breviter pedicellatis glabris sepalis late ovato-suborbiculatis 

 obtusis, petalis ellipticis, staminibus 5-6, antheris ovato- 



