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hern toM that it grows sometimes to a much greater size than that, mentioned above, 
which is the one I have observed it to attain. The ovary and halt'ripe capsule show a 
peculiar structure; they appear four-celled, when divided horizontally, inconsequence of 
tli ‘ inner tough membrane continuing, after it has formed the dissepiment, to turn further 
imvauls, penetrating almost through the fleshly placenta to the opposite or external side 
oi the cell, which la lit r, in consequence, appears to be subdivided into two compartments. 
— Wall. lot\ t ie. 
IIYMENODICTYON, Wall.loc.de. p. 148. 
Calyx adnatos, quinquedcntntus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo quinquefido. 
Fdamenta brevissima, glabra, infra faucem adfixa.; ant her a* exserlte, limbo breviores. 
Capsnla uiida, bilocularis, bivalvis, dissepimento vcntrali contrario, demum bipartite. 
Semina plana, ciucta mcmhruuu reticulata (unde nomcn), imbricata. super placeutani, septi 
cointnissursB adnataiiu demum liberum. 
C'lassis Einneana : Pentandria monogynia, scctio floribus monopetalis superis, cap- 
sulaque biloculari, bivalvi. 
Onlo natural is: Rubiacearnm subdivisio secunda, scctio tertia (Jussieu in Memoircs du 
museum <1 histoirc naturelle, 0. p, SOo et seqn.) 
Habitus Ar bores ex cels a:, umbras®, ramulis compressis, foliis opposite, coriacris, sti- 
pulis ^landuloso-ciliatis. Tlores inconspicui, pubescentes. virides dt nsi, fasrienlati, 
in paniculam digesli tenninalem, vel in racemos cylindricos, pedunculatos, axillaivs ter¬ 
minal t*s\ e, simplices vel parec ramosos. Pedunculus communis apice gcrens bracleum 
aridam venosam laneeolatam, lunge pedunculatam couvexam. Aflinitalas praeeipua JIa- 
crocnemo , Amssaendtp, ( inch once atque Rxostemmali. Diftert a primo liorum ge- 
nerum slaininibus glabris seminibusque alatis ; a secundo fructus structura et consisten¬ 
tly » nlroque vero approximatin' folio braeteaveilia singulari florali, in eo tamen abluden- 
le, quod ex apice pedunculi communis, nee ut in illis e basi ipsius calyeis, prodeat. A 
postcriorilms duobus generibus dislinguio.r eapsula nuda baud biparlibili, dissepimen- 
toque contrario, juvta axin in duas partes sequaleg disrumpente, valvulis adnatas. Se¬ 
mina insuper majora et eorum ala basi bifida; fignra tandem corollas magis Cinchona’, 
authcris exsertis Exostemmati cognatum. Wall, l.cit. 
UYMEJNODICTYON FLACCTDUM, Wall. 1. cit. p. 152. TAB. 22. 
Filiis elliptico-ovalis, supni glabris, nitidis; slipulis oblongis, spathulalis ; racends 
axil lari bus, gracilibus, laxis ; capsulis oblongis. 
Observavi ad descensum septentrionalein montis Slieopore, versus basin, in sylvis den- 
sissimis, floribus capsulisque prsecedentis anni vacuis on upturn mense Junio. Etiam ha- 
fmi c Noakote, eadem mense florentem. 
Arbor mediocris, umbrosa, cortice cinereo, glabriusculo. Rami patuli; superiorrs bi- vel 
triehotomi, glabri ; tenelli leviter compressi, basi circumdati squamulis aliquot gemmaceis, 
ovat.s, concavis, brunneis. Folia valde copiosa, versus apices ramorum approximate, pa- 
tentia, ovato-elliptica, acuminata, basi attenuato-acuta, coriacea, sex- ad decernpollicuria, 
parum undulala, glabra, nitida, juxta nervos leviter sulcata, subtus pallida, opaca, coste 
nervisque obliqnis, elevatis, parallelis, pubescentibus, ad axillas faveolatis puberulisque; 
retieuIato-venulosa. Petiolm teres, crassus, glaber vel puberulus, poilicaris, apice una cum 
basi costa? lufescente. Stipulce oblonga?, spathulata?, obtusa*, glabra?, membranacea?, 
subpetiolares, unguiculares ad pollicares, emarcescentes, decidua?, basi parum contract®, 
capillaceo-vcnuloses, denticulis s^hacelatis ediata?, intra basin et in axillis petiolorum 
