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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
cuspidate leaves and very elongated raeemes, with long cuspi- 
dated, petiolated bracts, and sepals with involute margins ; its 
internodes are 1-2 inches; the leaves are 3^-4 inches long, 
1^-1 1 inch broad, the narrow acuminate apex being \ inch in 
length, and the petiole 9-10 lines long. The raceme is 
44-0 inches long ; its pedicels, | inch apart, are 4 lines long, 
the lower ones having narrow petiolated and cuspidate bracts 
3-4 lines long. The flowers difiFer from all the preceding in the 
much larger size of the petals ; the two outer series of sepals are 
very acute, 1|-1 line long; the inner series acutely ovate. If line 
long; the six very cuneate fleshy petals, rounded at the apex, are 
1 hue long, the six stamens 1 ^ line long. The fructiferous raceme 
IS 1 4-2 inches long ; the pedicels 4 lines long ; the main carpo- 
phorum 3 lines long, slender, with from flve to seven radiating 
slender forks, each 2 lines long, and bearing a single drupe, — all 
having a diflerent aspect fi’om the typical species. 
4. Tiliacora abnormalis, nob. ; — ramulis striatis, pruinosis ; foliis 
ovatis, a basi sensim paulo angustioribus, apice obtuso, ro- 
tundiusculo vel emarginato, imo subcordatis vel truncatis, 
marginibus vix crenulatis et subrevolutis, submembranaceis, 
obscure viridibus, utrinque glaberrimis, e basi 5-nerviis et 
mox triplinerviis, supra subnitidis, crebre reticulatis, nervis 
tenuibus vix conspicuis, subtus pallidis, nervis paulo promi- 
nulis; petiolo tenui, limbo 7-plo breviore, glabro, vix tumido; 
paniculis axillaribus, racemiformibus, solitariis vel geminis, 
folio paulo brevioribus, puberulis; ramis alternis, imo brac- 
teolatis, apice 1-3-floris ; floribus sessilibus, basi 2-bracteo- 
latis, polygamis ; petalis 6 ; staniinibus 6 ; ovariis 4, ovatis, 
stipitatis, apiculatis ; stylo obsoleto. — In India orientali, v. s. 
in herb. Wiillich. Soc. Linn. (Russell, xxii. b). 
The internodes are 3 inches ; the leaves are 4| inches long, 
3f inches broad, on a petiole 8 lines long; the raceme is 
3-4 inches long, the primary branches are 3-4 lines long, each 
bearing generally three sessile flowers on its apex ; the three 
outer sepals are acutely orbicular, pilose, the three inner sepals 
(double their length) are oblong, subacute, glabrous ; the petals 
(I their length) are cuneately ovate, emarginated, fleshy, seated 
at the base of six fertile stamens, which are as long as the inner 
sepals ; filaments equal, somewhat terete, erect, slightly in- 
curved, seated round the gynsecium ; anthers oblong, connivent 
in the centre ; ovaries four, some of them sometimes abortive, gib- 
bously oval, with a lateral acute apex, the length of the petals, 
seated upon a stipitated gymecium, each with a slender stipitate 
support, 5 its length, one-celled, with an apparently perfect ovule 
attached on the ventral side below the summit. 
