By Mr. John Lindley. 



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X. Cyminosma pedunculata. De Candolle. 



Jambolifera pedunculata. Linnaeus. 



Gela lanceolata. Loureiro. 



Ximenia ? lanceolata. De Candolle. 

 Plants of this interesting species were brought from China 

 by Mr. Potts, in 1822. It has the appearance of a kind of 

 Limonia, under which name it was received. The leaves 

 are simple, but jointed with their stalk, opposite, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse> occasionally emarginate, quite entire and 

 smooth, covered over with minute resinous dots, and giving 

 out, when bruised, a strong smell resembling that of Cummin, 

 or of some other umbelliferous plant. The flowers are small, 

 yellowish green, and axillary, in corymbose racemes. The 

 calyx is minute and four-toothed, the petals four with a 

 valvular aestivation, a little spreading, narrow, and inserted 

 round the base of the ovarium. The stamens are eight, hy- 

 pogynous ; those opposite the petals shorter than the others. 

 Ovarium smooth, ovate, four-celled, with one pendulous 

 ovulum filling up the cavity of each cell. Style straight, 

 stigma two-lobed, with an obsolete division of each lobe. 

 The fruit, which has not been perfected in this country, ap- 

 pears, from dried specimens in the possession of the Society, 

 to be a superior, four-celled, somewhat fleshy pericarpium. 

 All the specimens I have examined have universally been des- 

 titute of seeds, and a fruit which I remarked in the Society's 

 Garden, in a half-formed state, was four-celled, but empty 

 also. The nature of this portion of the fructification of 

 the plant is therefore, at present, insufficiently ascertained, 

 but the characters of the plant afford abundant evidence 

 that it is referable to the Jambolifera pedunculata of Lin- 



