10 
SCHOEPFIA TRAGRANS. 
An Soltmearum civ is ? 
/. cit. 
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Aomen imposui a septo incompleto, quasidimidiato.— Wall. 
J'o the preceding account, vvbich is almost literally extracted from the 13th Vol. of 
the Linnean Transactions, I have nothing; to add, except that I have hitherto found it 
impossible to make the plant live in Bengal. 
SCHOEPFIA FRAGRANS, Wall in Roxb , Jlor. ind. 2 ./>. 188. TAB. 9 
Foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis; racemis axillaribus, solituriis ; ovario triloculari; drupa 
ovata, mono-sperma. k 
Aomen Parbutteanum: Ilaloomaphe. 
Crescit in sylvis minus elevatis Napalia?, a Bechiaco, usque ad convallem magnam, 
ubi satis frequens. Etiam ineolit loca magis elevata, septentrionalia. Floret sub plu. 
viis; fructus maturescunt Deeembre-Martio. 
Arbuscula, franco irregulari, diametrum pollicum tres vel quatuor emetiente, earlice 
crasso, spongioso, molii, rugoso, ex albido tiavescente ; ligno levi, cinereo. Rami ter- 
etes, albicantes, leviter flexuosi, uti reliqua? partes glaberrimi ; gemma’ copiosne, par vie, 
squumis constantes numerosis. Folia sparsa, approximata, interstitiis pluries longi- 
ora, bi-tripollicaria, integorrima, lanceolata, acuminata, basi aenta, latcribus parum 
lmequalia, subcarnosa, fragilia, avenia, supra atro-viridia, lucida, sulrlus pallida, nervis 
aliquot obsoletis, obiiquis, capillaribus, ad marginetn reticularis; retatc flavicanlia. Pe~ 
fiofi triltneares, terries, supra sulcati, basi articulari, siccitate inox decidui. StijmlfO 
nulla?. Flores (fig. 1,2.) llavi, fragrantissimi, dipositi in rave mm simpliees, ax ill ares, sub- 
scssiles, tenuos, lbiio dimidio breviores. Pcdunculus , uti rarhis , gracilis, teres, mid us, 
basi circvumlatus squamulis gernmaccis, nunc parum ultra adscendcntibus, bracteolas 
iiientientibus erassas, ov at as, subpedieellatas, gibbosas. Pedicclfi sex vel seplem, 
filiformcs, subelavati, unguiculares. Calyx (fig. 3.) parvus, duplex (jndiclo autliorum) 
uterque monophyllus : alius inferior • bract Ca culycijortnis , mihi) pedicelli apici insert u 9 
ovariumquc sull'ulriens, divisus in lobos duos tresve ovatos, acutos, imequales, membra- 
naceo-marginulatos, intermedio majori mine bi- vel tridentato; alter (calyx verm) 
superior, obsolotus, margine angustisstnio, integerrimo ovarium coronans. Corolla 
(fig. 4 .) subcarnosa, infundibuliformis ; tabus eylindricus, ungnicutaris, basi obscure pen- 
tagonns, apice leviter ampliatus in Umlum quinqiicfiduin, laeiniis lanceolatis, mentis, aes- 
tivatione valvntis, vix imequalibus; faux pervia, ad basin singulse lacinim munila lasei- 
eulo pilorum sncculentornni minuto, erecto, filamentum occultante. Ithnmnla bre 
vissima, erecta, snbnlata, laciniarmn basi, infra acervulos istos pilorum insert a, iisdemcpic 
opposita, hide per tubum lineis eapillaceis deeurrentia. Ant bare ad iaucon coiolliB 
erecta?, bilocularos. Ovarium (fig. 5, G.) carnosum, obloiignm, ealyeibus raulto longius, 
linens tres euietiens, vertice gerens discum carnosiun, latum, conicum, obtusum, intia co- § 
roll a 1 tubum prouiinulum ; triloculare, trisporum. Ocala evlindiiea, loculis btevioia, ex 
apice axis pendula. Stylus fibformis, tubi longitndiue. SHgma clayatum, carnosum, 
•i i /> fR,r *■ rt A ltnronta oblon^a, obtusa, laevis, ex albo ilaves- 
narvum, trdobmn. I) ray a (ng. /»«.) baccau, ui r- . 
•, 1 - r r.. nimr sativfC calyee sic dicto inferiore, persistente sulliilta, 
cens, magttitnnroe lere Jructua Ulei sauvte, 1 
. . .. .. . • r . rt ,. n t|o. ot calvcis suptirions fere obliterates. taro 
vertice inscripta vestigus insertions coiolla. . t .. . 
mollis, li.t’Hin ^ Vu,a m c„ (fig. 9.) <enuo, clmrtaceum, oblougum, all,on,, lines 
numerosis, parallels ...alii,us, elmalis, anastontOsantibos no,atom. ■«.loculam, 
lnonospcrn.vertice umbilic.u carni arctius a.lhaerens Perhpermnm ^g.W.) an >vg- 
ll .,i illl „„, a ]bum, putamini ..>fon„e, par,,,,, ragosum. Utegumentum s„„plex, teuue, 
f 
d 
notatum vestigiis linearibus ovarionau 
.. . , ad verticem semims noiaium ... 
.^«,««!. <« R . > *■ »«»»*«. *?“-»«- 
^.^ermi loeatos, inversus. Cannes paeaUelm, ovutm,; 
