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Arbor vasta. Folia alterna exstipulata longiuscule petio- 

 lata apices ramorum versus conferta, elongato lanceolata, 

 acuminata, coriacea, repanda, penninerva, punctis pellucidis 

 2-irregularibus notata. Flores paniculati parvi, numerosi, 

 viridescento-albidi, suaviter odorati. Paniculce amplae axil- 

 lares terminalesque ; ramulis cymosis divaricatis. Calyx 5- 

 fidus, per sistens, tubo brevi, laciniis rotundatis, breviter ciliatis, 

 aestivatione imbricatis. Petala totidem, toro nempe parum ele- 

 vato inserta, et verosimiliter adnata, unguiculata, unguibus 

 gynophoro adnatis, hypogyna, oblonga, patenti-reflexa, sepa- 

 lis alternantia, aestivatione imbricata. Stamina 5, libera., hy- 

 pogyna, toro nempe parum elevato inserta, vel potius adnata, 

 petalis alternantia. Filamenta subulata basi incrassata et 

 gynophoro-adnata, petalis breviora. Anthera oblongo-lineares 

 biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, subversatiles. Pollen 

 oblongum, leve, hinc sulcatum. Glandulae 5, minutissimae, 

 staminibus alternantes. Ovarium sub-aequilaterale sessile, sub- 

 rotundum, 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum. Stylus fere terminalis, fili- 

 formis, crassiusculus. Stigma peltato-capitatum, 4-sulcatum. 

 Ovulum in apice funiculi deorsum curvati sustentum, foramen 

 hilum prope. Fructus paniculati, sub-globosis, sessilees, basi 

 petalis foliaceis ampliatisque, lineari-spathulatis, venoso-reti- 

 culatis, rubro-viridibus, patentissimis reflexisve, involucratis, 

 sicci, indehiscentes, 1-loculares, 1-spermi. Semen erectum ? 

 sub-rotundum. Cotyledones maximae, plano-convexae, car- 

 nosaa. Radicula teres hilum spectans, in commissuram coty- 

 ledonum replicata. Plumula conspicua. 



This genus is most nearly allied, especially in the structure 

 of its fruit, to Melanorrhaea, Wall. In the mode of adhesion 

 of the petals and stamina with the torus it approaches to 

 Syndesmis. If my description of the ovarium be correct, it 

 differs from all the nearly allied genera, which have a more or 

 less oblique style. I suspect that two species are present 

 in my collection. 



