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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
arete vestiens; albumen parciusculum, scaphiforme, utrinque 
acutum, testa sequilongum ; embryo (sec. cl. Wight) parvus, in 
apice albuminis sepultus, cotyledonibus parvis acutis radicula 
tereti imo spectante tertia parte brevioribus. 
Arbores India Orientalis et Zeylanits, frondosa; folia alterna, 
elliptica, Integra, subcoriacea, petiolata ; paniculae corymbosa, 
terminates flores subparvi. 
1. Bursinopetalum arboreum, Wight, Spicil. Nielg. i. 22, tab. 24 j 
Icon. iii. tab. 956; Walp. Ann. i. 124 ; Tbw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 
42 ; — ramulis rugosis, subflexuosis ; foliis ellipticis, imo 
acutis et in petiolum subdecurrentibus, apice reflexis et re- 
pente augustato-attenuatis, acumine obtusiusculo, margine 
subrevoluto, superne paulo infuscatis, in nervis immersis sul- 
catis, subtus pallidis, nervds utrinque 3 venisque transversim 
reticulatis prominulis; petiolo longiusculo, angusto, canalicu- 
late ; panicula terminal!, corymbosa, tricbotome divisa, bra- 
chiis ultimis 3-floris, bracteolatis ; floribus breviter pedicellatis. 
— India Orientalis, v. s. {in flore) in herb. Hook . ; in fructu in 
herb, meo-, Nielgberx’y (Wight et Gardner). 
In my authenticated specimen, the leaves are 2^-21 inches 
long, Ij-lf inch broad, on a petiole 9 lines in length; the 
corymb is 2 inches broad and long, its primary branchlets are 
alteraate, the secondary are trichotomous, each forklet bearing 
three pediceUated flowers at its apex; the pedicles are 1 line 
long, and the flower expanded 3-4 lines diameter. The drupe 
is 1;^ inch long, 9 lines diameter; the putamen is ligneous, its 
sides being 2 lines tliick, its cell 5 lines in diameter, with the 
false septum, 1 line in thickness, reaching to the axis of the cell; 
the testa measures 5 lines across, and the tegmen 3 lines, both 
plicated in a horse-shoe form round the false septum. In the 
fruit I examined, the embryo was not perfected*. 
2. Bursinopetalum macrophyllum, Thw. in Hook. Kew Journ. 
Bot. vii. 242; Enum. PI. Zeyl. 43; — ramulis strictis, sub- 
angulatis, opacis, fuscis; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo subacutis, 
et in petiolum subdecurrentibus, apice rotundato-obtusis, 
marginibus valde revolutis, subcoriaceis, supra fuscis, con- 
vexis, nervis invicem 7-8 venisque reticulatis utrinque promi- 
nulis, subtus subpallidis ; petiolo costaque latiusculis, superne 
planis ; corymbo terminali. — Ceylon, v. s. in herb, meo ; Ram- 
boddi, 5000 ped. altit. (Gardner, 100). 
Thisf appears, by comparison with the foregoing, to be a 
* Structural details of this species are shown in PI. 73. 
t A figure of this plant and section of its fruit are given in the same 
Plate. 
