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sericeous scale at its base. Male /lower; filaments united in a column 
with 5, ovate, 2-celled, extrorse anthers at its apex. Female flower ; 
Btaminodes 5, alternate with the petals. Ovary 1 -celled, with 1 to 3, 
biovulate, parietal placentas. Stigmas 2 to 3, sessile, broad, eniaTginate. 
Fruit baccate with little pulp ; the pericarp coriaceous, tomcntose. 
Seeds 1 or 2, sub-globular, smooth. 
Note. — This genus was first published by Blumc in his Bijdragen 
(p. COO) as Ryparosa, and in that work ho published only the singlo 
species 72. cmsia. In a footnote to the preface of his Flora Javae (p. 
viii), the same author referred to the genus (apparently by inadver- 
tence) as Ryparia instead of Ryparosa ; and the name Ryparia has 
been adopted by most subsequent authors. Blurao regarded the genus 
as E ' uphorbiaceous, in which view he was followed by Etidlicher (Geu. 
5836), Hasskarl (PI. Jav. Rar. t p. 267), and Baillon (Efcnd. I3uph., p. 
339). Mull. Arg. (in DC. Prod. XV, ii., p. 1260) excluded the genus 
from Eupkorbiaceac ; and, in their Genera Plantarum, tho late Mr. 
Bentham and Sir J. D. Hooker, (G. P. iii,, 2.57), also exclude it; but, 
having seen no specimens either of it or of Bergsmia } they make no 
suggestion as to the true position of Ryparosa or of tho relation of 
Bergenia to it. Kurz (Journ. Bot. for 1873, p. 233, and For. Fl. 
Barm. I. 76) was the first to refer Ryparosa to Bixineae. But Kurz 
made tho mistake of describing in tho latter work, as " Iiyparia caesia" 
a plant which 'agrees neither with Blame's description npr with his 
specimens of Ryparosa caesia* The name of Kurz's plant I have there- 
fore altered to R. Kurzii. In 1S4S, Blame published, in Rumpbia IV, 
p. 23, t. 178 C„ fig. 2, a new genus called Bergenia which, as Kurz also 
pointed out (Journ. of Bot. for 1873, p. 233), is nothing more or less 
than his older Ryparosa. Only one species (B. javanica) was known to 
Blume. To this Miquel added (PI. Ind. Bat. Snppl. 389) two species, 
namely, B, Sumatraiia and B. ? acuminata, I have seen neither of 
these ; but the cymose inflorescence of B. Sumatrana leads me to believe 
that it must bo a Hydnocarpns, while the second (B. t acuminata) was 
referred doubtfully to Bergenia by its author himself. Tho collections 
brought, within the past year or two, from Pcrak by tho collectors of 
tho Calcutta garden contain copious suites of specimens of Ryparosa 
and, from an examination of these, I have no doubt that Ryparosa be- 
longs to Bixineae, and that Bergsmia must bo reduced to it. Besides 
the seven species described below, there are in the Calcutta Herbarium 
imperfect materials belonging to several additional species from Perak, 
and to some from Sumatra. Wall. Cat. No. 7847 B. (from Penang), and 
Beccari's No. 702 (from Sumatra), are also clearly species of Ryparosa. 
1. Ryparosa Kurzh, King. A treo or shrub. Young shoot* ad- 
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