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celled, 2 of the cells bearing each several ovula, but which are always abortive ; the other two having each a single seed, which alone come to maturity. An analogous cir- cumstance takes place, he observes, in the fruit of Linncea, and of Abelia, two nearly related genera belonging to the same family, the Caprifoliacea, in both which the germen is three-celled, two of the cells having several imperfect ovula, and the other a single ovuluin, which alone comes to maturity. Vide ' Characters and Descriptions of Three New Species of Plants, found in China by Clarke Abel, Esq. By Robert Brown, F.R.S.' [Ante, p. 324.]

Bot. Mar/, 2211 (1822).

JDillwynia cinerascens, corymbis terminalibus sessilibus, foliis filiformibus erectis ; mucrone innocuo brevissimo sub-recurvo, ramulis calycibusque sericeis. Brown MSS.

Mr. Brown possesses many species of this genus, which he divides into two sections ; in one of which (Xeropetalum, Br.) these parts are marcescent. It is to the latter section that the present plant belongs. The three species recorded in the ' Hortus Kewensis' all belong to the first ; and from this division the above generic character seems to have been more especially framed.

Bot. Mar/. 2247 (1822).

��Jacaranda OVALIFOLIA.

Cat. 5-dentatus. Cor. fauce campanulata : limbo bila- biato. Filamentum quintum sterile, longius, barbatum. Caps, ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis : clissepimento contrario, valvis pleniusculis adnato. Semina alata. — Arbores. Folia opposita, abrupte rariusve i?npari-pinnata, pinnis impari- jjinnatis. Mores panicidati, violacei. Calyx scepius cyatlii- formis nunc breve campanulatus vel subcylindricus dentibus obsoletis. Corollae cestivatio imbricata, labio superiore brr~

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