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than that species, and has a greater disposition to produce 

 flowers. The leaves are small, ovate, acute, covered with 

 silky pubescence, and frequently shorter than the panicles. 

 The stem is also hirsute, rather than silky. The species 

 has no merit as an ornamental plant, but may be distinguished 

 from those already described by the following character. 



D. ovata ; foliis ovatis acutis sericeis panicula brevioribus, 

 caule hirsuto, stigmate depresso. 



XII. Murraya paniculata. De Candolle. 

 This plant was sent to the Society from Sumatra, in 1823, 

 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. It forms, in the stove, 

 a naked arborescent shrub six feet high, with pinnated leaves, 

 of which the leaflets are alternate, ovate acuminate, unequal, 

 flat, quite smooth. The flowers are white, and appear at the 

 ends of the young branches singly, or by pairs from the axils 

 of the upper leaves, which are simple, and may more properly 

 be termed bractes. The blossoms have a delicious fragrance, 

 resembling that of the Orange. They are quickly perishable, 

 and have not in this country been succeeded by ripe fruit. 

 All the parts of the plant on being bruised emit a pleasing 

 resinous smell. A figure from the plant in the Garden of 

 the Society has been published by Dr. Hooker in the Exotic 

 Flora, tab. 134. 



XIII. Blackwellia fagifolia. 



Pythagorea Cochinchinensis. Loureiro. 

 Among the plants imported from China, by the Society in 

 1824, by means of Mr. Parks, were several individuals of a 

 remarkable plant with downy branches, and ovate serrated 

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