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meee Agee po ae es ret aa yes distinct. Leaves very variable in size, the largest, figured by 
tay ; song and from 4. to inches broad; the smallest, figured by Labillardiére, 2 inches 
8 ud about an inch broad. I cannot distinguish Labillardiére’s O. elliptica from Forster's Cerbera 
parvifiona, and have therefore no hesitation in uniting them. Asa Gray remarks, “To the lamented Prof, 
Henslow’s account may be added, that the ovaries are not really united except at their apices, that the 
ovules are eight, four on each margin of the suture, amphitropous; the micropyle superior.” And of A. 
Sandwichensis, DC., with which Forster’s plant has been confounded, he writes, “ Flowerbuds almost an 
inch long; the narrow lobes of the corolla rather longer than the tube, which is glabrous within, Ovules 
3 or 4 in each ovary. Seeds peltate on each face of the nearly complete false partition, exalbuminous? Ra- 
dicle inferior.” T add Solander’s detailed description of his Alysxia sp., taken from his mss. Flora :—‘* Frutex 
v. arbor parva, tota glabra lactescens. Rami teretes, lete virides, leaves. Folia3- et 4-terna, lineari-lanceolata, 
acuminata, basi in petiolum brevem attenuata, glaberrima; nitida, plana, compacta, venosa; venis tenuis- 
sims, parallelis, ©, fere ad rectangulum e rachi exeuntibus venulisque obsolete reticulata, spithamea et 
dodrantalia, unam uneiam lata. Petioli breves, vix semiunciales. Flores eymosi; cyma composita, sub- 
dichotoma, peduneulata, -Peduwneuli axillares (e supremis axillis), foliis 2-' et 3-plo breviores. Stipule 
[Bractee] opposite, ovate, acute, brevissime, ad basin pedicellorum. Calya 1-phyllus, persistens, eyathi- 
formis, breyis (vix sesquilinearis), angulatus, 5-dentatus: dentibus ovatis, obtusis, conniventibus; unde basis 
tubi corolle valde angustata. Corolla 1-petala, hypocrateriformibus. uwbws eylindraceus, rectus, paulo 
supra medium pro antheris parum veutricosus, interne glaber, crassitie penne columbine, semuncialis, e 
virescenti-albidus. Hawa nuda. Limbus patens, 5-partitus. Lacinie oblique, oblongo-lineares, obtusi- 
usculie, albx, longitudine tubi. Filamenta 5, brevia, paulo infra medium tubo inserta. Anthere oblonge, 
acuminate, crecte, intra faucem corolle incluse. Germina 2, supera, oblonga, obtusa, intus plana, extus 
convexa. Styli 2, filiformes, tubo breviores. Stigma 1, incrassatum, ovato-oblongum, apice subulatum, 
non nisi vi bipartibile. Dyuwpe 2 (omnino uti folliculi in reliquis contortis), sessiles, ovali-oblongs, parum 
compress®, glabre, magnitudine articuli digiti intermedii, horizontaliter divaricate. Substantia fungosa, 
sicea. Nuss oblonga, dura, crassissima, 2-locularis; dissepimento membranaceo; loculo altero sepe crasso. 
Nuelet solitarii, ovati, compressi, intus plani, extus convex.” 
Vi. Tabernzemontana, Plum. Noy. Gen. p. 18; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 361. Calyx 5-par- 
titus v. -fidus, lobis zestivatione 5-cunciali, 2 exterioribus ; glandulis linearibus, 4-7, basi cujusque lobi 
v. paulo supra basim adfixis, verticillatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo inferne medio v, superne, 
inflato, seepius medio angusticre, exappendiculato, fauce nuda, raro glandulosa, lobis obtusis, estiva- 
tione marginibus dextrorsum convolutis apiceque replicatis. Stamina parte inflata tubi corollee mserta ; 
filamentis brevissimis aut nullis; antheris szpius sagittatis, longe acuminatis, rarius linearibus 
plerumque inclusis. Nectariam nullum, Ovaria 2, adpressa, glabra. Stylus 1, basi interdum 
prope ovaria duplex, glaber. Stigma antheris proximum, basi plerumque annulatum, medio cylin- 
draceum v. tuberculis auctum, apice 2-lobum (an raro simplex’), Fructus 2 vy. abortu solitarii, 
lineari-oblongi, oblongi, vy. subglobosi, plus minus carnosi, pulposi, divaricati, nervis longitudinalibus 
pancis. Ovula co, amphitropa. Semina pauca v, plurima, intra pulpam cellulosam nidulantia, quasi 
arillo colorato tecta? obovoidea, pressione mutua” angulata; hilo depresso suleato longitudinal ; 
testa longitudinaliter striata; albumine carnoso, cotyledonibus foliaceis apice curvatis, raGtearer 
rectam equantibus, hilo parallelis, radicula supera, eylindrica.—Arbores v. frutices, intertropicales, 
yamis sepius dichotomis; foliis oppositis, altero seepe minore, integris, plerumque glabris, petiolis 
breyibus in stipulas falsas intrapetiolares, basi expansis v. connatis, glandulis prectores axillaribus, 
et nune lateralibus; cymis axillaribus, plerumque geminis apice ramulorum ; floribus albis v, I 
Pandaca, Pet. Thouars, Gen. Nov. Mad. n. 33. Rejoua, Gaud. Freye. p. 450, t. 61. Reichardia, 
Dennst. zum Hart. Mal, 6. n. 47. 
1. T. orientalis, R. Brown, Prodr, p. 468, non Don; DC. Prodr. vol. vill. p- ee glabra ; 
foliis oppositis, meequalibus, elliptico-lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis : Pee Se die een 
morum geninis erectis; dichotomus 3-5-floris; pedicellis erectis calyce dup 0 a ae et ven 
lobis calycinis ovato-acutis; tubo corollz (albze) angusto eylindraceo, eae Oo Pee ve sa 
longiore; folliculis ellipticis, obtusis.—T. Cumingiana, DC. Prodr. |. ¢. p. ee ki , Dra te 7 of 
in Bonpl, yol. ix. p. 257. 7. eitrifolia, Forst. Prodr, n. 124; non Linn.; Farkinson, wing 
