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PLANTS OF FK1NCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



POLYANDEIA— MONOGYNIA. 

 Bixa. 



Bixa orellana, Willd. 2, p. 1154. 



Several trees in the Honourable Company's spice planta- 

 tion, and also in some private gardens; bearing fruit. 



Grewia. 

 Greioia paniculata, Roxb. 



" Leaves short petioled, cnneate, oblong towards the apex, 

 serrate, downy underneath, three nerved. Stipules two cleft ; 

 Panicles terminal mealy." 



This is a tree, large and very branchy. Leaves alternate, 

 cuneate, oblong, pointed, towards the apex serrate, scabrous 

 above, downy underneath three nerved ; widely spreading. 

 Petioles short, round, villous, thicker at the apex. Stipules 

 lateral, erect, very small, bifid; segments lanceolate. Panicles 

 terminal, and axillary, diffuse, drooping partial peduncles 

 alternate, spreading; proper very short, three flowered.. Bracts 

 lateral, like the stipules, at the bases of the peduncles. Calyx 

 common, Involucrum, three flowered, three leafed; leaflets 

 concave, three cleft, caducous. Proper, perianthium five leafed ; 

 leaflets obovate concave, villous. Corolla, petals five, trapezoid, 

 emarginate, one half shorter than the calyx; the base concave 

 within, nectariferous. Stam: filaments numerous (about 50) 

 thread form, flexuous, the length of the calyx, rising from 

 the pedicel of the germ ; anthers roundish, two lobed. Pist: 

 Germ ovate, villous, on short columnar pedicle, style awl- 

 shape, erect, the length of the stamina, stigma simple. 

 Drupe small, globular.. Nut three celled, top-shape, hairy. 



If with Schreber and Willdenow, we make a genus Micro- 

 cos distinct from Grewia, this tree will be included in the for- 

 mer. But the separation seems unnecessary. It is very 

 distinct from Grewia microcos (Svst. Yeg. 689) Microcos 

 paniculata (Willd. 2, p. 1168, Bunu Zeyl. 74, H. M. 1, t. 

 56), which is a shrub, with lanceolate pointed leaves. 



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