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G. affinis. Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Trans. 6. p. 265. — Microcos panic ulata. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 

 p. 514. Sm. in Bees' Cycl. — G. Don, in Mill. Diet. 1. p. 551. — M. Mala. Ham. in Linn. 

 Soc. Trans. 13. p. 549. — M. Stauntoniana. G. Don, in Mill. Diet. I. c. — Arsis rugosa. 

 Lour. Fl. Cochin, p. 409.— Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. l^.—Pluhn. Phyt. t. 262./. 3.—Bheede, Hort. 

 Mai. 1. t. 56. 



We have been particular about the synonyms of this plant, of which we have numerous specimens from 

 Mr. Millett and Mr. Vachell, because there appears to have been much confusion; the state with leaves 

 broader upwards having been described by three different Botanists, under as many different names, all con- 

 sidering it as distinct from the plant of Linnaeus. Hamilton, however, appears to have had in view as the 

 Linnsean plant, another species called Microcos tomentosa by Smith, and which is the Grewia paniculata of 

 Roxburgh; and it is not improbable that, from the specific name, Roxburgh himself fell into the same 

 mistake. As to the specific identity of the two forms, Ave for some time entertained considerable doubts : 

 the figures in Roxb. Corom. Rheede, and Plukenet, all representing the Ceylon and Malabar plants and agree- 

 ing with a specimen of 31. paniculata, Sm., preserved in the Liunaean Herbarium, exhibit a leaf thatisovato- 

 lanceolate, and scarcely cordate at the base; while in the others from China, Ava, and Bengal, the leaves 

 are usually broader upwards above the middle, and then shortly acuminate. To the first belongs, of 

 Wallich's List, n. 1098, C. E. F. G. : and to the second, the other specimens of the same number, excepting 

 perhaps D, the G. begoniifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. p. 592, about which we have not had it in our power to satisfy 

 ourselves. Our friends Dr. Wight and Hamilton's specimens appear to determine the point that the one is 

 not distinct as a species or even as a variety, from the other, the former Botanist having found the ovato- 

 lanceolate leaf mixed with so strong an approach to the obovato-lanceolate kind, as to be scarcely distinguish- 

 able on the same bush, in hilly situations in the Peninsula of India : and although Dr. Hamilton says " folia 

 apicem versus latiora," his own specimen, preserved in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, is quite 

 intermediate between that and the Ceylon plant figured in Burman. 



Of the Order Tiliacece, we have Corchorus acutangulus, Lam., and Triumfeita Lappula, gathered near 

 Macao, by Mr. Millett and Mr. Vachell. 



Of the Order Ternstrmmiacece, Mr. Millett's Collection contains a very fine plant, which we refer to 

 Cleyera, though the anthera? be not " retrorsum setoso-hispidae," nor the stigma divided. We think the 

 species well deserving of bearing the name of its discoverer, who has rendered so much service to Botany 

 during his long residence in China. Its characters we give below.* 



Of the Order Camelliete, Polyspora axillaris, ( Camellia axillaris, Ker,) is sent from Macao by Mr. Millett. 



* Cleyera Millettii ; foliis oblongis obtuse acuminatis integerrimis (siccitate) venosis supra nitidis, 

 pedunculis solitariis unifioris supraaxillaribus cernuis, sepalis petalisque suba?qualibus omnibus acutis, stam- 

 inibus pilis erectis appressis setosis, stigmate simplici. (Tab. XXXIII.) 



Frutex (seu arbor) valde ramosus. Rami glabri, subrugosi, atro-fusci, nitidiusculi. Folia alterna, 2-3-imrias longa, brevissime 

 petiolata, coriacea, oblonga, basi attenuata, apice breviter et obtuse acuminata, integerrima, nervosa, superne pra-cipue, ubi nitida, 

 subtus opaca, pallidiora, nervis rnagis obscuris, juniora subtus puberula. Peduneu/i paulo supra axillam inserti, subunciam longi, 

 cerriui, solitarii, uniflori, apice ad basin calycis bibracteati, bracteis cito deciduis. Calyx e sepalis 5, ovatis, acutis, concavis, coriaceis, 

 lateribus imbricatis, dorso subhirsutis, marginibus ciliatis. Pctala 5, ovato-oblonga, acuta coneaviuscula, calyce vix longiora. Stamina 

 25, hypogyna, cum basi petalorum subaccreta : Filamenta in mucronera prodncta, pilosa, interne proecipue, pilis erectis, appressis. Anthera 

 locuM oppositi, adnati, lineares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium subrotundum, piloso-hispidum, in stylum longum, simplicem, 

 glabrum attenuatuxn. Stigma obtusum, simplex. 



From C. Japonica, the original Cleyera of Thunberg, this is known by its veiny always entire leaves, by the sepals and calyx nearly 

 equal in size, and remarkably acute, and by the entire stigma. In C. ochnacea, of which we possess fine specimens from Dr. Wallich, 

 the peduncles are clustered, the sepals and petals are quite rounded at the extremity, the anthers are retrorsely hispid, and the stigma 

 is bifid : and the 3ame characters are found in the C. grandiflora of Dr. Wallich. 



Tab. XXXIII. Cleyera Millettii. Fig. 1, Flower; fig. 2, Stamen; fig. 3, Petal; fig. i, Pistil :— magnified. 



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