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 64:6 PLANTS JAVANICLE RA1U0RES.

numerosa, simplici serie hypogyna, sequidistantia, distincta. Fit amenta subulata, glabra, omnia antherifera. Antherce oblonga?, obtusae, paulo supra basin emarginatam insertse ; connectivo angusto ; loculis parallelis longitudinaliter dehis- centibus. Pollen subglobosum, hispidulum. Ovarium ovatum, sessile, pube stellata copiosa, 4-loculare; loculis dispermis ; ovulis erectis, collateralibus, cuneato-obovatis. Stigmata 3 — 4 (quandoque 5), indivisa, semiteretia, papil- losa. Pericarpium evalve, pergameneo-crustaceum, subglo- bosum, calyce aucto patulo, filamentis eraarcidis, et diu 240] petalis elongatis seel calyce brevioribus cinctum, ruptile, monospermum. Semen subsphseroideum, glabrum, irre- gulariter sulcis nonnullis longitudinalibus lobatum; umbilico undo (nee strophiolato) prope basin lateris interioris.

Dr. Wallich, with whom the name Actinopliora fragrans originates, and with whose specimens the plant here described and figured entirely agrees, has given no other account than that it was introduced into the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1825, from the Isle of Prance. There is, however, no sufficient reason to believe that Actinopliora is indigenous either in that island or in Bourbon or in Madagascar, whereas it is certainly a native of Java, Dr. Horsfield having found it in several districts, chiefly in the medial and eastern parts of the island, in teak forests in a rich soil, or in low ridges extending to the sea-shore. He adds that the wood, which is very hard and durable, is used for various domestic and mechanical purposes, and that it is so ponderous as to be occasionally employed for anchors of small native praoes and canoes. Its Javanese name is Walli-kookoon.

With respect to the affinities of Actinojj7i,ora, it certainly does not belong to ButtneriacecB as I originally defined it, but this may equally be said of several genera at present included in that order, and which like Actinophora are more obviously referable to Titiacece ; at the same time, as I observed in proposing the separation of Buttneriacece, these two families gradually pass into each other.

From all the genera of Titiacece at present described,

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