On a new Genus of ScrophuUirinecB. 



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ricatis, apice sub-contiguis, longitudinaliter dehisccntibus, albis. 

 Connectivum dilatatum ad dorsum loculi superioris 1-dentatum. 

 Pollen ovale, tri-sulcatum, album, in aqua submersum sub lentem, cen- 

 ties augentem obscure granulosum. Glandula hypogyna carnosa, 

 albida, subintegra, postice incompleta, ad basin ovarii adest. 



Ovarium conico-ovatum, glabrum, biloculare. Ovula 00 adseendentia, 

 galeseformia, simplicia (an e cobesione ?) ; situs foraminis bilum 

 prope ; facies raphalis infera quoad axin. Stylus filiformi-clavatus, 

 glaber, vasorum fasciculis duobus instructus. Stigma bilamellatum, 

 lamellis approximatis fimbriatim denticulatis, postico vel superiore 

 minori. Capsula late-ovata, venosa, compressa, stylo stigmateque 

 sphacelatis terminata, basi glandula semicincta, marginibus undulatis, 

 calyce ampliato clauso planiusculo obtecta, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvis 

 integris submembranaceis, concavis, margine simplicibus flexuosis sub- 

 involutis. Placenta demum libera, valvis parallela, septis apice dis- 

 tinctis adnata. Semina 00 minuta, rotundata, depressa, pallide brun- 

 nea, foveolis 6-7 lateralibus profundis exsculpta, inconspicue reticu- 

 tata, papillis albis lineatim dispositis scabrella, funiculo brevi atrato 

 insidentia. Raphe semi-completa, linearis, angusta. Chalaza punctum 

 apiculatum, atratum, submammillae-forme. Testa tenuissima, areolata, 

 alba. Tegumentum interius eoriaceum, brunnescens, albumini firme ad- 

 herens — Albumen densum, carnosum, album, foveolis totidem exsculp- 

 tum — Embryo orthotropus, axilis. Cotyledones minimee, plano-convex- 

 iusculee. Radicula longiuscula, subcylindracea. Plumula inconspicua. 



I may take this opportunity of adverting to a Synopsis of the East 

 Indian Scrophularinecs, by Mr. Bentham, in which great progress has 

 been made towards extricating these plants, which form so conspi- 

 cuous a portion of our flora, from the confusion in which they were left 

 by Roxburgh, whose characters are so short as to be frequently en- 

 tirely useless. The Synopsis is prefaced by an introduction, in which 

 may be found much valuable information. In this I shall only notice 

 two points, which appear to me not quite correct. 



The first regards Verbenacece, which are stated to have an ovarium 

 divided into uniloculalar cells. This, however, is by no means the 

 general character of the order, which is to have a bilocular ovarium, 

 each cell containing two ovula, erect or pendulous, and becoming 

 sometimes bilocular by the growth of the placentae outwards between 

 the ovula. A contrary modification to this exists in some, and especi- 

 ally in those genera, as Congea of Roxburgh which are characterized 

 by having capitulate flowers surrounded by an involuerum. In these 

 the ovarium is unilocular and the placentae free, resembling very 

 closely those of Santalum and Olax. To this section, which is of 

 common occurrence in the Flora of Mergui, Avicennia comes very 



