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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Obs. — This curious arrangement of the seeds is not a httle 

 remarkable : they he one within the other hke skins of an 

 onion, each occupying the full length and breadth of the cell, 

 but diminishing regularly in size from the outermost to the 

 middle in proportion to the different radius of the circle which 

 it describes round the common centre. They are attached 

 one above the other to the bottom of the cell at its inner 

 angle. The leaves are destitute of pellucid dots, and have 

 their lateral nerves strongly and distinctly marked. The 

 nectaries which alternate with the stamina are very peculiar, 

 being saccate, apparently by being doubled backwards. 

 This species differs from the following and those of America 

 in having no scales at the base of the petals, and from the 

 latter in having numerous stamina. It appears to be nearly 

 related to Loureiro's Hypericum Cochinchinense, which as 

 already observed, belongs to this genus. 



ELODEA FORMOSA. ( W, J.J 



Foliis petiolatis lanceolatis subtus glaucis, pedunculis fas- 

 ciculatis axillaribus, staminibus numerosis triadelphis, nec- 

 tariis acutis. 



Kayo Gaghak. Lampong. Sepadas Bunga. Malay, 

 Native of Sumatra. 



A small tree with cinereous bark and smooth branchlets. 

 Leaves opposite, elliptic oblong, acute, very entire, smooth, 

 glaucous beneath, pellucidly punctate ; two and a half in- 

 ches long; the nerves proceed from a midrib. Petioles 

 slender. Peduncles axillary and from the axils of fallen 

 leaves, fasciculate, one-flowered, slender, smooth. Flowers 

 white with a slight rosy tinge. Bracts several at the base of 

 the peduncles. Calyx five-leaved, smooth, leaflets acute. 

 Corolla five-petaled, longer than the calyx ; petals oblong, 

 each furnished with a broad adnate scale a little above the 

 base. Stamina numerous, united into three phalanges. Nee- 



