Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 2Sl 



numerous small subrotund orange colored glands, situated 

 at the base of the calyx and surrounding stamina. Stamina 

 umerous, (20 — 30) hypogynous, longer than the calyx ; fila- 

 ments white, anthers yellow, subrotund. Ovary superior, 

 ovate, crowned with 4 — 5 short thick diverging styles ; stig- 

 mata capitate, two-lobed. Berry reddish purple, with a juicy 

 acid flesh, in which are imbedded from 8 to 10 pyrenae ac- 

 cording to the number of the styles. 



The fruit of this though rather too acid to be eaten in its 

 raw state, is much esteemed in tarts and pies. 



On some remarkable Plants in the H* C. Botanic Gardens, 

 Calcutta,^ By W. Griffith, Esq., F. L. S., Memb, 

 Acad. Nat. Curios., Royal Ratisb. Bot. Soc, Assist. 

 Srug. Madras Establishment. 



JENKINSIA. 



FAMILIA NATURALIS— THYMELEiE. 



Char : Gen : — Flores dioici. Perianthium calyculo vel 

 involucello cinctum; masculum hypocrateriforme, fauce im- 

 pervia esquamata. Stamina totidem alternantia ! fauci in- 

 serta, nullo modo inclusa. Fcemineum suburceolatum, pro- 



* Acting on the law established in Zoology, on the authority of the 

 Committee of the British Association, (herewith quoted,) and which is 

 applicable with equal correctness to the sister science, I have omitted 

 altogether the MSS. names the plants, now for the first time described, 

 bear in these Gardens, because they do not appear to have been 

 established on descriptions, much less on definition. 



Names not clearly defined may he changed. — Unless a species or group 

 is intelligibly defined when the name is given, it cannot be recognized 

 by others, and the signification of the name is consequently lost. Two 

 things are necessary before a zoological term can acquire any authority ; 

 viz. definition and publication. Definition properly implies a distinct 

 exposition of essential characters, and in all cases we conceive this to 

 be indispensable, although some authors maintain that a mere enumera- 

 tion of the component species, or even of a single type, is sufficient 



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