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hejiiphragaia. 
hypogytw carnoso, convexo, subquinquelobo, flavescentc. Stylus (fig. 3.) filiformis, 
laxus, a pice clavatus dilatatusque in %t igmu oblongum camosnm, glulinosum, medio au- 
thuas ailfigens, apicula bilobu terniinaUim. Folliculus { fig. 4.) maxinius, oblongus, sub- 
c} limlricus, obtusus, viridis, demum lutescens, glaber. nunc parum tuberculatus, basi re- 
lusus, pedunculo lignoso crasso brevi insidens, pcndulus, pedalis, diametro tripollicari, 
1 ignoso-coriaceus, plena maturilate longitudinn liter deliiscens in duos lol)os (fig. 5.) 
.equal es, extus convexos, intus pianos et. parallelos, parum distantes. Caro valde eras- 
sus, coriaceo-spongiosum longitudinaliter lignoso-fibrosus, initio nifescens, demum fus- 
cus. Vissepimentum nil nisi latera interiora utriiisque lobi incurva, plana, parallela, cras- 
sa, conaceu, e basi usque ad apicem riiua longitudinali. intus placentifera fissa. Lo- 
culamentum in siuuulo lobo iinicuni, oblongum, tunica valde nitula, laevi, alba vest;- 
turn, Rcccptaculiun (tig. 0., lenue, membranaceum, sublineare, foraminibiis j luribuslon- 
giuscuhs pertusum, retiforme, apicibus aafivum placentae grucili, long a.', debisceutiu 
demum liberum .—Semina (fig. 7, b.) valde numerosu, deuse iii.hrieala, peudulu, cunei- 
tormia, pollicaria, angulata, papilloso-rugosa, fusca, raphi lougitudiuali veultem, percur- 
rente umbilico parum contracto et excavato, comoso. Dlembruna exterior fusca; sub- 
spongiosa ; interior tenuissitna, albumini arete applicata. Coma den&a, longa, sericeo- 
Spleudens, setula lninuta, ex umbilico ort&, quasi stipitata, semine ipso duplo lougior.— 
Albumen eonforme, caruosiun, lacteum. Embryo (tig- 9, 10.) niveus, caruosus, lactes- 
cens. Cotylcdona maxima:, crass®, oblong®, obtus..e, dorso couvexiusculo venules®. 
Jiadictila supra, cylindriea, bre> is. 
OrtSERTATIOX. 
This truly magnificent plant was introduced into tbe lion. Company’s botanic garden 
by tbe late Mr. John Roxburgh froai Chittagong in the year 1810, and has since grown 
to an enormous size, some of the individuals overtopping the largest trees, with stems 
measuring at the base from 11 to 13 inches in circumference. It is at all times extreme¬ 
ly ornamental; chit lly, however, when covered to excess by its ample bunches of superb, 
snow-white, most delightfully fragrant blossoms, when it is also clothed with a profuse* 
ncss of tlark green, shining, large leaves. The fruit is probably the largest of the whole 
tribe, being twelve inches long, sometimes even longer, and proportionally thick, hang¬ 
ing down perpendicularly, not unlike like a large green cucumber. It is produced in 
great plenty ; its internal structure is extremely elegant, the seeds beino very numerous, 
and beautifully arranged, each furnished with a long, silky, extremely soft and delicate 
coma. The shrub is easily propagated both by seeds and layers ; in short, 1 know of no 
vegetable production, more noble, more desirable, more ornamental in all its stages than 
the one I have now described, and which, 1 hope 1 have been so fortunate as to succeed 
in introducing into the gardens of Great Britain. 
ITEM I PUR AGM A, Wall in A t. Linn . 13. p. 611. 
% 
Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis : limbo patente fi-fido subaequali. Sta¬ 
mina 4, aequalia; anther is midis, liber is. Stigma simplex, aculum. Jlacca clobosa, 
exsucca, incomplete 2 locularis, polysperma, dtssepimcnto placentifero sursum iisso. 
Syst. Linn. Tifrandria Monogyma, Loribus monopctalis, mouocarpis, iuferis. .-in 
pot ins Didynamia A ngiosperm i a ' 
Ord. Natural. S rophulavtnae, Brown. 
Habitus, Herba gracilis, repens pilosula. Folia duplicis indolis ; caidina et ramea 
Orbiculato-reniformia, opposita, subsessilia, dentata ; alia aeerosa, gracillimu, ccnferta 
