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 584 PLANTS JAYAiNIC^ RARIORES.

Loxonia hirsuta of Jack, which, however, it appears from his description to resemble in so many points that it may actually belong to the same species, differing only some- what in the form of the leaves and in being less pubescent. Dr. Jack did not find his plant in fruit, neither did he ascertain the dehiscence of the capsule in L. discolor, from which the character of the genus was formed. In both species he describes the ovarium as bilocular, and the lobes of the placental as re volute.

Dr. Horsfield found this plant in 1818, when he accom- panied Sir Stamford Raffles on his journey from Padang — one of the principal stations on the w r est coast of Sumatra — to the Menangaboo country, growing on the ranges of hills which extend parallel to the coast from N.W. to S.E., in shaded forests between 500 and 1000 feet above the level of the ocean. He did not observe it in Java.

Tab. XXV. Fig. 1. Loxonia acuminata, natural size. Fig. 2. A flower, magnified. Fig. 3. An anthera. with a portion of the filament. Fig. 4. Style and stigma. Fig. 5. Capsule surrounded by the calyx. Fig. 6. Capsule after dehiscence, the calyx being removed. Fig. 7. One of the valves of the capsule. Fig. 8. Transverse section of the ripe capsule. Fig. 9. A seed. Fig. 10. The embryo.

��Cyrtandrace.e, to which Loxonia and Loxotis belong, was established in 1822 : by the late Dr. Jack as a natural order, according to him most nearly allied to Bignoniacece, but differing sufficiently from that family in the structure of its fruit, especially in the placentation of its minute seeds.

The existence or absence of albumen in the ripe seed is not expressly stated in his character of the order, nor is it noticed in the description of any of the species he has referred to it. It may, however, be presumed that he

1 'Linn. Soc. Trans.,' vol. xiv. p. 23.

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