utrinqve exferentia proceffum capillarem horizontalem apice in- 

 curva polliniferum.* 



Pericarpium. Follicq,lu,s carnofus vel coriaceus, ventricofus. 



Reaptaculum fungofum, amplum, futura adfixum, demurn liberum. 



Semina numerofa, inverfa, retrorfum imbricata, complanata, hinc 

 leviter convexa, inde concava, margine lato membranaceo inte- 

 gerrimo cin&a. Tefta membranancea, intus prx*fertim ad margi- 

 nem feminis fpongiofa, ad fuperficiem ventralem infcripta 

 funiculo umbilicali ramofo. Membrana inttrna tenuiffima, albu- 

 men ar6le veftiens. 



Albumen embryoni conforme, carnofum, tenuiffimum, aqueo-album. 



Embryo rectus, dicotyledoneus. Cotyledoncs rnagnae, foliaceae. Plu- 

 mula punctiformis. Radicula fupera, cylindrica. 



Habitus: Frutices volubiles, glabri, ramis copioiis elongatis fubarticu- 

 latis, lacle fpiflo glutinofo fcatentes. Folia oppofita, glabra, firma, 

 bafi fupra acervulo glandularum. Racem> extrapetiolares, corym- 

 bofi, parvi. Follkuli folitarii (per abortum.) 



SARCOLOBUS globofus Wall. 



S, foliis ovato-oblongis 9 corollis intus villofis, folliculis magnis carnofis 



globofis utrinqve retufis muricatis. 

 Habitat ad littora fubfalfa fluminis Hoogly Bengalee aultralis. 

 JPrutex ramofifiimus, late fuper arbufculas volubilis, cortice pallida 



glaberrimo callofo-pun£lato. 



* Thefe bodies do not belong exclufively to the AJdep'tadece, but ate found likewife in the dfoejaeai,, 

 In Roxburgh's Nerium grandiEomm (Cat. hort. beng.) they are very large, membranaceous, brawn, 

 «>bovate 3 loofely adhering to the fomewhat flattened fiJes of the ftigma and covered entirely by the 

 anthers. By a peculiar procefs ifluing from their acute bafe and elongated downwards and upward* 

 they are attached to the groorcs of the ftigma, between the projecting angles of its bafe, and to the 

 margins of the corref>onding anthers. At the burfting of the cells the gnnulsr pollen is forced to 

 remain on the vifcid Airfare of thefe bodies, Tbi» fhrub is not a Nerium, and form* probably a new 



