be examined in a frefh and native {late. Under this impreffion I truft 

 that the following defcriptions and drawings of two plants, belonging 

 to a very intending and Angular genus eftablifhed by Mr. Brow^, 

 may not be unacceptable to lovers of botany. Both of them were 

 brought to me a fhort time ago from the Sunderbans, and introduced 

 into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where they thrive very well at a 

 place which is daily irrigated by the tides of the brackifh water of the 

 river Hoogly. 



SARCOLOBUS. 



Brown in Act. Soc. Wernerianse L p. 34. 



Pentandria Digynia, Ordo naturalis Jfclepiadeoz, a CI. VIIL 

 Ord XIV Apocinearum -Jufs : feparandse. 



CHARACTER GENERIS, 



Calyx qvinquefidus, perfiftens, bafi extra corollam corpufculis s: glan- 



dulis quinqve cylindricis minutis laciniis alternantibus. 

 Corolla rotata, qvinquefida, seflivatione imbricata. Tubus nullus.' 

 Corpus flamineum fubglobofum, feflile, nudum. 

 Antherce ovatse, obtufae, fligmati incumbentes, membranaceO'marginatse, 



intus cellulis dmbus divergentibus. 

 Mafpz pollinis decern, cereaceas, Iseves, per paria ad latera ftigmatis ap* 



proximatse, incumbentes, divergences, baft fuffultse proceffibus cor- 



pufculorum iligmatis. 

 Ovaria duo oblonga, acuta, unilocularia, polyfpora. Ovula Ijiorizontalia, 



axi adfixa. 

 Styli breviffimi, acuti. 

 Sttgmz depreiluni^pentagonum, antheris te&um, angulis baseos porreclis 



corpufculiferis. Corpufcula teretia, dorfo fulco exfculpts, bafi 



