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disk. Style one. Berry about the size of a pea, five-celled, 

 many-seeded. Seeds arranged in a double series in each 

 cell, attached to the axis. 



Obs. — This is a very handsome shrub, having much the 

 habit and foliage of the common Myrtle, but the leaves are 

 smaller and firmer. Its character and appearance are alpine, 

 and it is only met with at high elevations ; I found it on the 

 summit of the Sugarloaf, and I am informed that it is almost 

 the only shrub met with towards the top of the volcanic 

 cone of Gunong Dempo in Passumah, where it is called 

 Kayo Umur panjang, or the Tree of long Life, probably 

 from its maintaining itself at elevations where the other de- 

 nizens of the forest have ceased to exist. At Bencoolen an 

 infusion of the leaves is drunk as a substitute for tea; and it 

 is known to the natives by the name of the Tea Plant. 



GLAPHYRIA SERICEA. 

 Foliis lanceolatis acuminatis. 



Found on Pulo Penang, an island on the Western coast of 

 Sumatra. 



This is a moderate-sized tree ; its leaves are lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, entire, very smooth. Flowers few, on short 

 leafy peduncles or branchlets, which spring from the axils of 

 the upper leaves. The calyx, peduncles and bracteolar 

 leaflets are sericeous, as also the young leaves and shoots. 

 Corolla from five to six-petalled. Stamens numerous. Ovary 

 from five-to six celled, polysperous. 



RHODAMNIA. (W. 

 Icosandria Monogynia, N, O. Myrtacece, 



Calyx superus, quadrilobus. Corolla tetrapetala. Sta- 

 mina numerosa. Ovarium uniloculare, pluri-ovulatum, pla- 

 centis duobus parietalibus. Bacca unilocularis oligosperma. 



Arbuscula, foliis trinerviis, inflorescentia aocillari, 



* Monoxera.-~R. Wight?— W. G. 



