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wards, coriaceous, glabrous, veinless, H-2^ inches long, 9-15 lines 

 broad, dark green and shining above, pale green beneath : Petiole 

 flattened, 2-4 lines long, of a purplish colour. Pedicels axillary, 

 solitary, terete, glabrous, 9 lines long, of a purplish colour. Calyx 

 bractless, free : Sepals 5, roundish, concave, glabrous, imbricated, of 

 a yellowish colour tinged with purple, unequal, the largest ones about 

 2 lines long. Petals 5, hypogynous, roundish, concave, imbricated, 

 of a pale yellow colour, the outer ones tinged with purple, about 

 4 lines long. Stamens numerous, hypogynous, in several series : 

 filaments flat, scarcely a line long. Anthers continuous, linear- ob- 

 long, introrse, 2-celled, cells bursting longitudinally, separated by 

 a broad connective, which is terminated by a broad emarginate ap- 

 pendix. Ovary superior, conical, glabrous, 2-celled, with 2-collateral 

 ovules suspended from the top of the dissepiment. Styles 2, short. 

 Stigmas broadly subreniform, with undulated margins. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Obs. — This plant differs from the genuine species of the 

 genus in the want of bracts to the calyx, and having two dis- 

 tinct styles, each of which bears a large subreniform stigma 

 with undulated margins, but otherwise the structure is the 

 same. The two varieties above described appear to be very 

 distinct species, and at first I considered them as such, but 

 on more attentive examination, could not find characters by 

 which to distinguish them. 



GORDONIA, Ellis. 



1. Gordonia elliptica, Gardn. 



G. Arborea glaberrima, foliis sessilibus exacte ellipticis 

 utrinque obtusissimis margine subrevolutis integerrimis apice 

 emarginatis coriaceis supra venoso-reticulatis subtus eveniis, 

 floribus axillaribus sessilibus, sepalis orbicularibus emargina- 

 tis extus puberulis margine ciliatis, petalis 5 obcordatis extus 

 puberulis basi coalitis, antheris oblongis, ovario sericeo- piloso, 



