in the H. C. Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 389 



laminam subsequantes, medium versus glandulis turbinatis 

 distantibus vel approximatis stipati, pilis stellatis ferrugi- 

 neo-albis vestiti. Lamina deltoidea, cordata, insequaliter 

 dentata ssepe sublobata, acuminata, basi 5-venia et ssepe 

 1 -glandulosa, subtus ferrugineo-alba pilis stellatis. Inflo- 

 rescentia fseminea terminalis, cymoso-paniculata. Cymse irre- 

 gulares. Flores articulati in pedicellum brevisimum saepi- 

 us bractea filiformi sufFuItum, inconspicui, parvi. Masc : 

 nondum visi. Fsem : Calyx imbricatus 5-sepalus, sepalis 

 oblongis inaequalibus. Petala 5, breve unguiculata, rotundata, 

 convoluta, mediantibus partibus superpositis cohaerentia in 

 corollam urceolatam sepalis paullo longiorem. Stamina O. 

 Annulus hypogynus carnosus, 5-lobus, circa basin ovarii. 

 Ovarium ovato-oblongum, corolla brevius^ pube solita dense 

 vestitum, bi-triloculare. Styli 2-3, profunde bipartiti, secus 

 later a et faciem internam stigmatosi. Ovula solitaria, pen- 

 dula. Fructus subrotundus, breve et dense pubescens, pe- 

 dicello turbinato insidens, styli cicatrice apicem versus nota- 

 tus, drupaceus, abortu unilocularis, monospermus. Caro 

 crassus, succosus, viridis. Putamen tenue, lignosum. Semen 

 pendulum subrotundum; tegumentum exterius tenue, cel- 

 lulosum, venosum, raphe ad chalazam in ramis ssepe dicho- 

 tomis divisa ; interius crassum, atrum, osseum. Albumen 

 copiosum carnosum. Cotyledones foliaceae. Radicula brevis 

 supera. Habitus Rottlerae, succus aqueus. 



By this plant it is my wish to commemorate the late Mr. 

 J. Voigt, Surgeon to the Danish Settlement of Serampore, 

 and author of the MSS. Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis. 

 When I mention that, under the superintendence of Mr. 

 Voigt, the Botanic Garden of Dr. Carey continued to be 

 as rich in species as the H. C. Botanic Gardens, and that its 

 contents were made available with exceeding liberality ; 

 that the Hortus Suburbanus is a complete and digested 

 catalogue of all the plants found about Calcutta, arranged 

 according to their Natural Families, and that it thus forms the 



