COXTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
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It Will readily be seen that all these minutely detailed 
characters agree precisely with those of Diploclisia inclyta, 
except the number of sepals, petals, and stamens, which here 
are five, instead of six. It may be inferred, therefore, that 
Schlectendal, when drawing up his diagnosis, was misled by 
examining a flower in which one of these parts, which are very 
caducous, had fallen away; and this seems clearly proved by 
the following circumstances. Schlectendal states that Hohen- 
acker’s plant, on which he founded his genus, came from 
the province of Canara, on the south-western coast of the Indian 
peninsula. Now in the Hookerian herbarium I found a plant 
of Hohenacker’s from Mangalore, in Canara, which I carefully 
examined, and ascertained that its flowers are hexamerous, 
agreeing in every character with other specimens of Diploclisia 
inclyta : it is also a ? plant, according with Schlectendal’s de- 
scription not only in the size and form of the leaves, but in the 
length of the inflorescence, the distance and length of its pri- 
mary branches, its almost umbellate branchlets, the markings 
of the sepals, and the shape of the petals and sterile stamens. 
It appears to me that there is not the slightest doubt of their 
absolute identity ; and I therefore think that the genus should 
be suppressed, and that Quinio cocculoides, Schl., should stand as 
a synonym of Diploclisia inclyta, as suggested on a former occa- 
sion {ante, p. 283). 
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