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dulous, marked on each side with a longitudinal furrow, 

 simple, and bursting longitudinally in the manner so accu- 

 rately described by Mr. R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. N, Hall, 

 p, 535. Pollen globose. Ovary surrounded at the base by 

 five distinct erect obtuse scales, five-celled, each cell con- 

 taining a single oblong ovulum. Style erect, villous. 

 Stigma subglobose. Drupe baccate, subglobose, five-celledj 

 cells one-seeded. 



Qf)g^ — ^Xhe discovery of this species is remarkable as 

 forming an exception to the general geographical distribution 

 of the Epacrideae, a family almost exclusively confined to 

 Australasia, or at least to the Southern hemisphere. Singapore, 

 situated at the extremity of the Malay peninsula, and forming 

 as it were the connecting link between continental or Wes- 

 tern India and the islands of the great Eastern Archipelago, 

 partakes of this character in its Flora, which exhibits many 

 remarkable points of coincidence with the Floras of both 

 regions. I have had occasion to observe resemblances between 

 its productions and those of the Northern frontier of Bengal 

 on the one hand, and of the Moluccas on the other, w^hile 

 the present connects it with the still more distant range of 

 New Holland. 



XV. VERBENACEiE. 



CLERODENDRUM MOLLE. ( W. J,) 



Didymania Angiospermia, 



Caule erecto tetragono, foliis cordatis acuminatis integer- 

 rimis tomentosis, panicula terminali, tubo corollae calyce vix 

 longiore, calyce fructus ampliato carnoso albo. 



Frequent in Sumatra, Pulo Pinang, &c. 



