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taries three, alternating with the stamineous fascicles, red, 

 acute, carinate behind, fleshy. Ovary three-celled, each cell 

 containing several flat ovula lying one within the other, and 

 attached by their bases to the lower part of the axis. Styles 

 three, long. Stigmas capitate. Capsules oblong, crowned 

 by the persistent styles, three-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 thin, flat attached by their bases to a central triangular 

 column, on which they are inserted alternately in a double 

 series. 



Obs. — The arrangement of the ovula is similar to that ob- 

 served in the E. Sumatrana ; they are thin, attached by their 

 bases to the lower part of the cell, suberect, and con- 

 centrically disposed, but are inserted rather higher on the 

 axis of the cell than in the former. This species agrees with 

 those of America in having a scale at the base of the petals, 

 but differs in having numerous stamina ; it therefore comes 

 nearer to the E. Egyptica ( Hypericum Egypticum Linn.) 



IXONANTHES. r^.*^./* 



Calyx 5 passim 6-partitus, foliolis subrotundis. Corolla 

 5 V. 6-petala, glutinosa. Stamina 10 vel 20. Nectarium 

 germen cingens. Stylus 1. Capsula supera, calyce corol- 

 laque persistentibus cincta, ovato-acuminata, 5-locularis, 

 5-valvis, valvularum marginibus introflexis. Semina singulo 

 loculo dua, margini interior! dissepimentorum affixa, com- 

 pressa, in alam membranaceam producta. Albumen semini 

 conforme, embryone inverse foliaceo, piano. 



Arbores^ foliis alternis simplicibus, jioribus dichotome 

 corymbosis axillaribus. 



IXONANTHES RETICULATA. 



Floribus decandris, foliis integerrimis. 



Found at TapanuUy on the West Coast of Sumatra. 



* Appears to be allied to Archytsea, Martius Nov. gen. et sp. 1. 116. 

 t. 37.— W. G. 



