By Mr. John Lindley. 



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which consists of Roxburgh's East Indian Robinias, and 

 especially to T. suberosa, from which I should even believe 

 it not distinct, if that plant were not described to be destitute 

 of the two little bracteolae which I find at the base of the 

 calyx of this. 



Brought in a living state from China, in 1822, by Mr. John 

 Potts. A greenhouse plant flowering in June, and propa- 

 gated with considerable difficulty by cuttings. It grows 

 readily in any light sandy soil. 



XIV. Calyptranthes Caryophyllifolia. Willdenow. 



C. arborea, paniculis lateralibus, foliis elliptico-ovatis integerrimis. WiUd. 

 sp. pi. II. p. 975. 



A fine stove plant sent to the Society from Sumatra, by the 

 late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, in 1822. It is a small 

 tree with virgate branches and compressed twigs, rather thinly 

 clothed with leaves. The latter are flat, oval, coriaceous, 

 acuminate, with a channelled stalk ; minutely dotted, with 

 very delicate veins running in simple parallel lines, nearly as 

 far as the margin, within which they become confluent into 

 a line parallel with the edge of the leaf. The panicles 

 are crowded, many flowered and trichotomous, appearing 

 from the old wood. Calyx nearly entire, obsoletely four- 

 toothed. Petals four, white, cohering into a little cap, which 

 is pushed off by the elongation of the stamens ; these are 

 numerous, but inserted in a nearly simple row, just within 

 the edge of the calyx. Filaments white. Anthers small, 

 pale. Ovarium inferior, two-celled, with many mis-shapen 

 ovula attached by their middle to a projecting fleshy placenta. 

 Style straight, weak, a little arcuate. Stigma simple. 



