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central line. Ovary inferior, four-celled, with four erect styles 

 and small capitate stigmas ; cells with one anatropous ovule, pen- 

 dulous from the summit of each. Fruit coriaceous, grooved, ellip- 

 tical-ovate, with a narrow top and persistent calyx, one-celled, with 

 one pendulous seed, which has only been collected unripe, but 

 appears to be albuminous and to have' an axile embryo. 



Plate IV. Fig. 1, 2. Very young leaves and stipules in verna- 

 tion. 3. Flower. 4. Vertical section of the same. 5. Petal. 6. 

 Stamens. 7. Transverse section of ovary. 8. Branch and nearly 

 ripe fruit. 9. Vertical section of immature fruit. 10. Ditto of 

 nearly ripe fruit : — all but Jig. 8 and 10 magnified. 



II. Kokoona., Thiv., gen. nov. Nat. Ord. Hippocrateacea). 



Gen. Char. Calyx brevis, persistens, margine 5-lobo. Pclala 5, 

 sestivatione contorta, firma, concava, glanduloso-punctata, deci- 

 dua. Stamina 5, petalis alterna ; filamentis basi disco glandu- 

 loso immersis ; antheris oblongis, introrsis, longitudinaliter de- 

 hiscentibus. Ovarium disco imrnersum, 3-loculare, loculis 4-ovu- 

 latis ; ovulis biserialibus, adscendentibus, anatropis. Stylo brevi, 

 conico ; stigmate capitato, 3-lobo. Capsula 3-locularis, loculis 

 4-spermis. Semina late alata, exalbuminosa, erecta ; embryone 

 orthotropo, cotyledonibus planis, radicula infera. — Arbor ingens, 

 ramosa, cortice rugoso. Folia opposita, petiolala, obovata vel re- 

 tusa, versus petiolum angtistata, obscure remote crenulata, Icevia, 

 coriacea, suhtus minute gkmduloso -punctata , stipulata. Stipulac 

 ?ninut(E, coloratce, acuta?, subpersistentes. Inflorescentia paniculata, 

 axillaris. Bractese minvta. Flores pedicellati, laves. 



Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw. Tab. V. 



Hab. Central provinces of Ceylon, Ambagamowa district ; elev, 

 4000 feet. Herb, Hort. Reg. Bot. Peradeniensis, No. 2584. 



A large forest-tree, 60 feet or upwards in height, much branch- 

 ed especially towards the top. Bark rough, when cut of a yellow 

 colour, somewhat corky. Leaves dark green, smooth, underneath 

 paler, with very numerous minute dark red glandular dots. Sti- 

 pules very minute, deep red, subpersistent. Panicles axillary, ra- 

 ceme-like. Bracts very minute, acute. Flowers dull yellowish- 



