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central line. Ovarij inferior, four-celled, with four erect styles 
and small capitate stigmas ; cells with one anatropous ovule, pen- 
dulous from the summit of each. Fruit coriaceous, grooved, ellip- 
tical-ovate, with a narrow top and persistent calyx, one-celled, with 
one pendulous seed, which has only been collected unripe, but 
appears to be albuminous and to have an axile embryo. 
Plate IV. Fig. 1, 2. Very young leaves and stipules in verna- 
tion. 3. Flower. 4. Vertical section of the same. 5. Petal. 6. 
Stamens. 7. Transverse section of ovary. 8. Branch and nearly 
ripe fruit. 9. Vertical section of immature fruit. 10. Ditto of 
nearly ripe fruit*: -^a// hut Jig, 8 and 10 magnijied. 
II. KoKOON^, l%w., gen. nov. Nat. Ord. Ilippocrateaceoe. 
Gen. Char. Calyx brevis, persistens, margine 5-lobo. Pelala 5, 
sestivatione contorta, firma, concava, glanduloso-punctata, deci- 
dua. /S'/amma 6, petalis alterna ; filamentis basi disco glandu- 
loso immersis ; antheris oblongis, introrsis, longitudinaliter de- 
hiscentibus. Ovariiun disco immersum, 3-loculare, loculis 4-ovu- 
latis ; ovulis biserialibus, adscendentibus, anatropis. Stylo brevi, 
conico ; stigmate capitato, 3-lobo. Capsula 3-locularis, loculis 
4-spermis. Semina late alata, exalbuminosa, erecta ; embryone 
orthotropo, cotyledonibus planis, radicula infera. — Arbor ingens, 
ramosa, cortice rugoso. Folia o}:posita, petiolala, ohovata vel re- 
tusa, versus peiiolum angustata, obscure remote crenulata, Icsvia, 
coriacea, siihtus minute glanduloso-punciatay sliimlata. Stipulse 
minutcB, coloratcs, acuta;, suhpersiste?ites. Inflorescentia panicidaia, 
axillaris. Bracteae minute. Flores pedicellati, Icsves. 
Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw. Tab. V. 
Hab. Central provinces of Ceylon, Ambagamowa district; elev. 
4000 feet. Herb, Hort. Reg. Bot. Peradeniensis, No. 2584. 
A large forest-tree, 60 feet or upwards in height, much branch- 
ed especially towards the top. Bark rough, when cut of a yellow 
colour, somewhat corky. Leaves dark green, smooth, underneath 
paler, with very numerous minute dark red glandular dots. Sti- 
pules very minute, deep red, subpersistent. Panicles axillary, ra- 
ceme-like. Brads very minute, acute. Flowers dull yellowish- 
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