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Observation. 
A very superb plant belonging to the less frequent productions of Nipai. jl.ikc Doth 
the preceding species ii inhabits chirk and shady parts of the high mountain of Sheopore. 
and has hitherto resisted my endeavours to make it survive a hot season in Bengal. Fig. 
0 , 7 , 8 and 0 belong to Arum nepenthjiiles- 
CINCHONA CRATISSIMA, Wall. TAB. 21. 
Fvhis ovuto-ohlonjris. acuminatis' sublus ad nervos villosis; ptmiculti terminal!, mill* 
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tifloia ; ealyce villoso, laiiniis longis, linearibus, deciduis; corolla glabrti, tubo longius- 
Ckilo, eylin Iraceo lob is subrotundis, concavis. 1 fall, in Roxb. tl if. ind. 2. p. let. 
Crtseit copiose in rupibus subnudis Nag-Urjoon, aliisque montibns minoribus Napa- 
li;e; ctiam ad Bechiako el Koolik in, florens to to fere anno* Eliam habui e montibns 
Vundooa, Sylhet vicinis, ubi floret Septembre. 
Nomen Newarrcnse et Parbutteum Toongnusi. Bengal onse L soohooli. 
Arbuscuhi r.imosa, sedcciinpedulis, trunco a?quali,cliameti um sexpollicarem attingente, 
oblecto codice tenui, fusco, seabro. Dignum compaclum, pallidum, albidum. jR aniult 
opposili, cinerei, ealloso-punctali j juoiores rulesccntcs, pulicruli. Folia opposila, paten* 
tia, approximate!, acuminata, ovalo-oblonga, basi acuta, marginibus subundulata, ciliaia, 
coriaeea, quadri- ad sexpollicaria, glaberrima, supra lucida, subtus pallida ct opaca, costa 
elevatn, nervisqne villosis, obliquis, parallelis, approximates, ad axillis accrvulo pilo- 
nun muuilis, Pi tioli tcretes, pubescenles, pollicares vel sesqutpollicares nunc rufescentes, 
Sfipula lanccolata.', canaliculato-acuminut®, lineas quin quo long®, glabrae, valde deciduae. 
Puniculo terininulis, sessilis, ovalo-rotunda, tolia superiora longitudine subaequaus , lami 
decussati, incano ct dense villosi. Jlvadeac infra divisuras adque basin pcdicelloium 
Oppositie, liaeares, long®, eaducae. PIores (fig. 1, 2.) niagtii, speciosi, rosei, tcinali, 
Iranrantes. Calyx viilosus, pelicello bri vi, subcarnoso insideiis, divisus in huinias ( fig. 
3.) cpiinque lineares, creel as, acutas, subimpqualcs, nunc imequilatcias, coloiatas, basi Ic- 
viJer an"ustatas et subarliculatas, caducas, villosas, itilus glabras sex- ad duodecim tineas 
Ion gas. Corolla (fig. 4.) glabra, calyce duplo longior, subcarnosa; tubus cyliutlricus, 
gracilis, sursum pa rum amphatus ; faux per via, nuda ; limbus patens, tubo dinndio brcvior, 
laciuiis subrotundis, concavis, oblusis, crenulatis, basi subcoidalo retusis. Filamenta 
brevissima infra faueem ; authurce lanceolatae, vix exsert®. Ovarium (fig. * r >, 0.) ob- 
longo-cunealum, earnosum villosuui, biloc.ularc ; ooula super placentam sc ptalem, cai- 
nosain dense inibricala ; stylus filiformis ; stigma clavatiim, earnosum, di\isum in lo- 
bos duos laiiccdatos, margiuo revolntos. Capsula (fig. 7, 8.) oblongo-clavata, parutu vii- 
losa fusea, linens octo longa, b viter comprcssa, apice truncata notata vestigio insertionis 
ealveis, biloeularis, inscripla sulcis oppositis duobus, juxiaque hos usque ad basin aentam 
dehisce iis in loculu duo; membrana exterior carnosa, demuni coriacca; interior cliarta- 
cra- Dissepiment"m parallelum, planum, constans membrana internA utriuscpie locu- 
lorum intlexa, maturitate ab apice usque ad basin in duas partes divisum, a pice ostio rc>- 
timdato oxeisum. Placenta lineari-oblonga, foveolata, demum libera; locula (fig.9, 10.) 
fissura inti rna ab ostio dissepimeuti ad basin usque longitudinaliter dehiscentia, ideoque 
quasi bivalvia. Semina (fig. II, 12.) copiosa, minuta, cuneata, adscendentia, dense im- 
bricata, ferruginea, uigosaeL scabra, apieem obtusam verus membranulA venosa, angusta, 
crenulata, iua*quali cincla. 
Observation. 
It is impossible to conceive any tiling more beautiful than this tree', when covered with 
its numerous round panicles of pink-coloured, very fragrant and large blossoms. 1 have 
