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sessile, not larger than a pepper-eorn before expansion, marked with from twelve to fifteen 
superficial pores, which are arranged in a quincunx or decussated manner from the basis to 
the top ; in these the anthers are completely sunk, their two-lobed apexes being only visi¬ 
ble above the surface. Immediately after expansion these pores open, their lower sides 
turning gently downwards and resembling so many small, triangular, acute, valves, each 
having a distinct, two-lobed, two-celled anther attached to its inner or upper surface, its 
apex being free and somewhat shorter than that. When the anthers burst, each cell ap¬ 
pears to be two-lobed. It may perhaps be advantageous to consider the receptacle as 
the connate filaments; and the above-mentioned antheriferous valves, as the free apices 
of these latter. 
KADSURA JAPONIC A, Dimal 
Dioica, polyandra ; Jtoribus siibsolitariis ereetiusculis; pedmicuhs petiolo longiori- 
bus; an titer is sessilibus, immersis; baccis dispermis, capitatis. 
Kadsura, Jussieu, in Annul du Mus. 16. p. 310. 
Ka dsura j upon tea , Dunal Anonac. 57.—He Cand. syst. nat. 1. 466. 
Uvaria japonica , Linn. spec, plant. 756.—-Thunb. jap. 237. 
L varia hctcroclita, Roxb. Mss. ct Icon. 
Dry inis , F. Hamilton, Icon. pict. in hort. hot. Calcutta? asservata. 
Fu to Kadsura, sive Sane Kadsura, aliis Orenj Kadsura; Kenkoo ; Kaempf. amoen. 
p. 476 et 785. tab. 477. 
Crescit in lnontosis prope Sylhet, ubi detexit beatus M. R. Smith—Specimina tarn vi- 
ventia qnam sicca misit collector horti hujus F. l)e Silva.—Floret sub initio pluviarum ; 
IVuctus maturos profert Octobre, ISovembre.—In horto botanico Calcutta? floruit prim A 
vice Junio, 1823. 
Observation. 
This interesting shrub does not grow in Nipal; it has hitherto only been found iu Ja¬ 
pan and at Sylhet, on the eastern frontiers of Bengal ; probably also atGualpara, where 
I conjecture that my worthy friend Dr. Hamilton met with it. I have had opportunities ot 
examining it both iu its cultivated and dried states. It is extremely like the preceding spe¬ 
cies (for which reason I have called the latter K. propinqua); nor can I distinguish it 
except by the capitate berries, and by the other, less prominent marks, which 1 have intro¬ 
duced iu the specific character.—Kaeinpfers figure is excellent. 
COLQUHOUMA, Wall 
Calyx evlindriens, fauce aeqnali, 5-denlata; tructifer clausus. Corolla bilabiata ; la¬ 
bium su peri us fornicatum, bidentatum; inferius trilobum, lobis lateralibus fauci arapli- 
atae utrinque insertis, intermedio ininorc, iutegro. Stamina adscendentia ; anlherarum 
lobi divaricati, nudi. Stigma bilobum, lobo superiore breviore. Ovula solitaria, pen- 
dula! Achenia maxima, alatu. Peri sperm tun co piosu ro. Embryo erectus. 
Ilabitns. Frutex late volubilis, superne toinento stellato, ferrugineo.* rami juniores 
alternation compressi, subarticulati. Folia ovalia, serrata, scabriuscula, odore debili 
aromafico. Flores pulchri, coccinei, fasciculuti, axillares, subverliciilati, nunc subra- 
cemosi. 
Syst. Linn. Didy no mi a Gymnospermia . 
Ordo. natural. JjabiatW. 
