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lanceolate, erect; when the fruit ripens reflected. Corolla tube 

 long, straight ; limb five cleft segments obtuse, inclining to 

 one side. Stamens. Filaments thread form, the length of the 

 corol, white ; anthers small, deep yellow. Berry roundish, 

 smooth. 



The plant was brought from Amboyna, and flowered be- 

 fore it was removed from the box in which it came. 



Acanthus. 

 Acanthus ilicifolius, Willd. 3, p. 398. 



Growing by the sides of water-courses, and in low lands 

 near the sea from which the mangroves (Khizophora) have 

 been cleared away. 



• Thunbergia. 



Thunbergia fragrans, Willd. 3, p. 388. Eoxb. Cor. 1, p. 47, 

 t. 67. Pretty common by the road side. 



MONADELPHIA— DODECANDKIA. 



Pterospermum. 



Gen. PI. ed. Schreb. n. 1124. Willd. 3, p. 728, Pteros- 

 permum ? parvifolium H. (Probably Pt. jackianum Rumpti). 



Leaves alternate, lance-ovate, pointed, repand, smooth 

 above, hoary beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. 



Grow ? s among the underwood, near the Honourable Com- 

 pany's spice plantation. Not having seen the fruit, the genus 

 is still doubtful. Flowers in May. 



POLYANDEIA. 



BOMBAX. 



Bombax pentandrum, Willd. 3, 731. {Eriodendron anfractu- 

 osiun). 



Pretty common, planted about houses in George Town. 



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