1. Reevesia lea. L in d l. in Bot. Reg. t. 1236.
This seems to be an abundant plant, if we may judge from the specimens we have received from various
friends.
1. Byttneria ; foliis cordato-subrotundis breviter ac subiter acuminulatis integerrimis
nervo medio versus basin subtus glándula lineari oblonga iiistructo, floribus corymbosis,
carpellis aculéis brevibus validis ecbinatis.— Colehr, in Roxb. et. Willd. Fl. Ind. 2. p . 383.—
B. gruntlifolia. De Cand. Prodr. v. l . p . 486.
The capsule consists of five cocci, which split in an elastic manner, and separate from the central axis,
very much as in Hura crepitans, to which also in the appearance of the foliag'e this plant bears considerable
resemblance. The leaves ai-e described by Dr. Wallich as pubescent beneath, and they are so likewise in
the specimen from China before u s ; but those from tbe Calcutta Garden, distributed by Dr. Wallich, (n.
1144 of his List of Indian Plants,) are, as De Candolle says, perfectly glabrous. We scarcely know what is
meant in the Flora Indica (1. c.) by “ Anthers twin:” probably anthers tw«-celled, as there is really but one
anther, although the two cells be slightly distinct Jlr. G. Don, in Miller’s Dictionary, places this species
in Commersonia, v ith which it agrees pretty well in habit, but not in the structure of the fruit, nor in the
trifid filaments.—With regard to Commersonia, we have at page 60 of this Work inadvertently been led
into the same mistake as other authors, by referring to Rumph. Amb. 3.119, as a figure of Forster’s C. ecliinata.
At first sight the figure agrees well, and is therefore quoted by Forster himself; but on tiirning to the text,
Rumphius thus describes the leaves “ adulta inferius sunt subrotunda, in medio antcm latissime, sex nempe
dígitos transversales lata sunt illa, quíe palmara longa sunt.” Besides the great size described, they are
represented strongly serrated. Now the plant we had in view, and which, after a second careful comparison
with Forster’s plate and description, we still consider to be bis species, has rigid coriaceous leaves, glabrous
above, and covered with a compact white pubescence beneath; their shape is oblongo-lanceolate, slightly
and unequally cordate at their base, while their margin is slightly and distantly toothed. There cannot,
we thiuk, be the smallest doubt but the Commersonia echinata of Blume, now called C. Javensis, by Mr. G.
Don, in Miller’s Dictionary, (with which j^ain we consider as identical C. platyphylla, ¡3. De Cand. Prodr.
V. 1. p. 486, and C. echinata of Roxbiu-gh, figured and described by him as n. 1392, at the India House, but
omitted in his own Indian Flora, although the name is inserted in the Hortus Bengbaleiisis at p. 22,) is the
plant figured by Rumphius; and further, we do uot see any satisfactory character to distinguish it from C.
platyphylla, Andr., figured in the Bot. Magazine, t. 1813.
1. Pentapetes/jAtentcea. L in n .
1. Pterospernium acerifolium; foliis cordatis subrotundis dentatis, involucro nullo.—
Willd. Sp. PI. V . 3. p . 729.— Pentapetes acerifolia. Lin n .
Walteria indica of this order is found by Mr. Vachell near Macao.
O r d . X I I . T IL IA C E A . Juss.
1. Grewia Microcos; foliis ovato-vel obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis junioribus subtus
breviter stellato-pilosis adultis glabris basi subcoi'datis rugulosis serridatis, panicula terminali
pubescenti, floribus binis ternisve involucratis, petalis calyce multo brevioribus apice emarginatis,
ad unguem cavitate annulo pubescenti cincta intusque glandulam adpressam prope
basin ferente instructis, drupa putamine unico pilosa triloculnri, foliis serratis. L in n . Syst.
ed. 12. V . 2 .p . 602. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p . 510. Spr. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p . 579.— G. ulmifolia.
Roxb. Hort. Bengh. p . 42. Fl. Ind. 2. p . 591. F . I. C. Mtis. tab. pict. 1983.—
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