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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



A tree. Leaves subopposite, short petioled, rather re- 

 curved, seven or eight inches long, ovate-oblong, somewhat 

 acute, entire, smooth, with strong prominent nerves and 

 reticulate veins. Panicle terminal, much branched, spread- 

 ing, many-flowered. Peduncles^ pedicels and calyces ferru- 

 ginous, densely villous with stellate hair. The flowers are 

 smaller than those of L. Reginae, but much more numerous 

 and in much larger panicles, pale rose color on their first 

 expansion, and passing through various gradations of inten- 

 sity, until at length they become nearly purple. Calyx covered 

 with ferruginous wool, turbinate, regularly marked with many 

 deep longitudinal furrows or ribs, giving it a fluted appear- 

 ance, limb spreading six-parted. Before expansion, the 

 calyx is obconical and nearly flat at the top. Corolla six- 

 petalled, spreading, petals inserted by short ungues alter- 

 nately with the segments of the calyx, ovate, not much un- 

 dulated. Stamina red, numerous, inserted on the calyx, six 

 of them longer, thicker and more conspicuous than the rest. 

 Ovary thickly covered with white hair, six-celled, many- 

 seeded. Style erect. Stigma clavate. 



Obs, — This beautiful and splendid species may be readily 

 distinguished from the L. Reginae by the greater size of the 

 panicles, and their ferruginous color. The flower buds in 

 that species represent in some degree a double cone, in this 

 a single inverted cone, being flat and even depressed at top. 

 The L. hirsuta, Lam : is also quite distinct from this, having 

 hirsute leaves. 



XLV. RHIZOPHORE.E. 



RHIZOPHORA CARYOPHYLLOIDES. (W, J.) 



Dodecandria Monogynia, 

 Fruticosa, folliis ovato-lanceolatis utrinque acutis, pedun- 

 culis axillaribus trifloris rarius dichotome quinquefloris, flori- 

 bus 8-fidis, radicula subcylindrica acutiuscula. 



