find existing in that before us. The fissure of the point of 
the stigma was. probably the cause of Forster's statement 
respecting the bipartible nature of the style of Melodinus 
scandens. We are, therefore, aware of the objection that 
may be taken to the specific name monogynus; but we pre- 
_ fer leaving changes in the nomenclature of Roxburgh’s plants 
to be made by the learned Botanist under whose care the 
general publication of them has been placed. 
A smooth, climbing Shrub. Leaves opposite, oval-lan- 
‘ceolate, acuminate, with no marginal nerve, attached to 
short footstalks. Flowers large, white, terminal, panicled. 
Calyx campanulate, spreading; sepals 5, ovate, rounded, 
imbricated, hairy; those inside the largest. Corolla white, 
fleshy, much longer than the calyx, quite smooth, hypocra- 
teriform ; the. tube contracted at the base and villous in- 
side; the limb 5-parted, spreading, with falcate segments 
wrinkled across ; orifice crowned with 5 fleshy, erect scales, 
which are two-lobed and hairy, and opposite to the seg- 
ments of the corolla. Stamens 5, inserted towards the base 
‘of the tube, smooth, pointed. Anthers conniving .round 
the stigma. Ovary ovate, simple, seated in a smooth dis- 
‘cus. Style filiform. Stigma thick, conical, with two 
beaks. No glands under the ovary. 
J. 1. 
