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_QUISQUALIS indica. 
Amboyna Quisqualis. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. THYMELER. Jussieu gen. 76. 
CoMBRETACER. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 548; 
et supra fol 429. 
QUISQUALIS. Cal. longissimus filiformis limbo 5-dentato. Squame 
(petala) 5 oblong. Stylus filiformis : stigma obtusum. .Drupa 5-angularis 
1-sperma. Folia: opposita, flores spicati, terminales aut axillares, singult 
bracteati.. Jussieu 1. c. 78. dads 
Q. indica, bracteis oblongis ventricosis: petalis oblongis villosissimis. J?ox- 
burgh flor. ind. ined. mall 
Quisqualis indica. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.556. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 579.- La- 
marck illustr. t. 357. Smith in’ Rees’s cyclop. in loc. — Sweet hort. sub. 
lond. 94. Curtis’s magaz. 2033. 
Quisqualis pubescens. Burm. ind. 103. t. 35. 
Quis qualis. Zunph. amboyn. 5. 71. t. 38. 7 
Frutex robusins scandens, ramis novellis villosissimis. _ Fol., subopposita, 
breviter petiolata, a lato-ovalibus ad oblongo-cordata, integra, villosa, acu- 
mine abrupto longiusculo. Stipule nulle. Spice terminales et axillares, 
villose. Vlores plurimi, oppositi et alterni. Bractex solitarie, uniflore, 
rhomboidee, villosa, ciliate. Cal. tubo filiformi, proximé infra orificium 
villosum 5-fidum dilatescens. Petala quinque, oblongo-lanceolata, ore calycis 
inserta, villosissima. Filamenta ordine alterné duplo ort calycis ctrcumpo- 
sita: anther oblonge, incumbentes. Germen LEAD uniloculare, ob- 
longum; ovula s@piits 4, summo loculo annexa. Stylus usque.ad stamima cum 
tubo calycis coadunatus, indé discretus atque in stigma majusculum, trique- 
irum perforatum antheris equale abeuns. Roxb. in loc. cit. (ex anglico 
versum). NE 
SHogt ADit ESTOG, Riess “tes eb Os ih ee 
In the unpublished “ Flora Indica” two species of Quis- 
Quauis are recorded by Dr. Roxburgh as cultivated in the 
Calcutta Garden; both of a pubescent habit. ‘The one with 
narrow bractes has been named villosa by the Doctor, and 
is said to be native of Pegu; the other, the present species, 
with broad bractes, of Amboyna. Loureiro’s indica, of 
which we find a prototype specimen in the Banksian Herba- 
rium, is entirely smooth throughout, and we should think 
distinct from both the above. 
_ We transcribe the following account of the subject of 
this article from Dr. Roxburgh’s manuscript. 
