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On some remarkable Plants in the 



the male flowers, the situation of the stamina, and the copious 

 albumen. Lagetta is the only genus recorded as presenting 

 more than one ovulum. 



The description of the male flower should be viewed with 

 doubt, since the tube of the so-called hypocrateriform 

 perianth may be a pedicel, which view is suggested by the 

 drawing from which this part of the description was taken. 

 And this is perhaps also suggested by the situation of the 

 abortive stamina of the female flower, which are to be found 

 in the form of minute projections from the surface of the 

 stalk of the fruit close to its apex. This seems to me to 

 indicate a tendency to separation in the verticilli of which the 

 flower is composed. 



The other plants of this family that I have met with on 

 the N. E. frontier and Straits of Malacca, localities that, 

 however distant, present remarkable affinities in vegetable 

 forms, are — 



Daphne cannabina. Lour. Bootan. Khasiya Hills. 



— involucrata. Wall. Khasiya Hills. 



' sp. ~ ■ — — Naga Hills. 



— Gardneri, Wall. Bootan. 



— • — Mishmee Mountains. 



— — - viridiflora, Wall. Mergui. 



Linostoma decandrum. Wall. Khasiya Hills. 



pauciflorum.* Singapore. 



Enkleia malaccensis.f Malacca. 



* Linostoma pauciflorum, foliis obovato-ellipticis apice rotundatis 

 cum mucrone cuspidiformi, umbellis 2 — 3 floris, tubo perianthii et fauce 

 intus glabris. 



Hab. — Colles prope Stativa Singapore. 



Frutex subscandens. Folia quam folia L. decandri 2— 3-plo minora ; 

 floralia magis membranacea. Flores graciliores, et squamae multo minus 

 staminiformes. 



t Enkleia. — PeriantUum tubulosum, limbo 5-fido, (erecto.) Squamm 

 faucis totidem alternantes, (bifidae vel bilobae.) Stamina 10 ; filamenta 

 brevia, antherae seriei superioris tantum semi-exsertae. Stylus subter- 



