inserta, filiformia, inter se spiralitcr contorta: antheræ sagittatæ acuminatæ medio stigmati coherentes.
Glandulæ hypogynæ 5, majusculæ, carnosæ, glabræ. Germen ovatum, compressum, biloculare. Stylus
unicus, filiformis. Stigma e basi dilatata conicum.
This, if it be a Parsonsia, belongs to the second section, which hitherto consists of Australasian species:
but we think there are sufficient characters, although we are ignorant of tlie fruit, to constitute it a distinct
genus: in which case the plant may be named Helicandra Sinensis.
1. Holari'liæna affinis; antheris oblongis medio tubi insertis, stylo subelongato.
Corolla hypocrateriforrais, fauce tuboque intus pubescenti absque squamis denticulisvc. Stamina inclusa :
filamenta nulla: antheræ medio tubi insertæ, a stigmate liberæ, oblongæ, integroe, longitudinaliter pollini-
feræ. Annulus subcarnosus, tenuis, brevis, pistilli basiu arcte cingens, alioquin squamæ nullæ hypogynæ.
Germina duo. Stylus subelongatus,, tubo subdimidio brevior. Stigma cylindraceo-capitatum.
This accords so well with the figure in Vahl, Symb. 3. t. 59, of H. mitis, Br., that we should have considered
it identical, did not Brown and Vahl describe the stamina as situated at the bottom of the tube
of the corolla, as having almost no style,’ and omit all mention of the little annulus that surrounds the base
of the germen.
ECDYSANTHERA. (Hooh. et Arn.)
Calyx 5-partituSj laciniis lanceolatis. Corolla subcampanulata; limbo 5-fido, patente,
laciniis æquilateris, per æstivationem contortis; fauce tuboque intus absque squamis denti- .
culisve. medio tubo inserta: brevissima: aniAer® semiexsertæ, sagittatæ,
medio stigmati cohoerentes, lobis posticis polline vacuis. Annulus hypogynus, brevis, tenuis,
pistilli basin cingens. Germina duo. Stylus unicus, brevis. Stigma conico-capitatum,
acutum.—F ru tex erectus? Folia suhlonge petiolata, elliptica, basi acuta apice subiter breve
attenuata, glabra. Panicula axillaris, elongata, laxe cymosa. Flores parvi, rosei. Corollæ
tubus v ix calyce longior. Germina villosa.
I . E . rosea, { T a b . X L I I .)
H ab. Canton, Macao, and the adjacent islands. Messrs. L ay and Collie, Mr. Millett, and R ev. G. H.
Vachell (No. 144.)
There can be no doubt, we believe, of this being a genus distinct from any previously described. It is
extremely allied to the next in habit; and it is probable that Echites? lucida. Wall. List, n. 1670, belongs
one or the other, but we have not seen flowers sufficiently advanced for examination.
Tab. XL II. Ecdysanthera rosea. Fig. 1. Flower; fig . 2. Corolla laid open magnified.
POTTSIA. (Hook, et Arn.)
Corolla hypocrateriformis, fauce tuboque esquamatis, limbo 5-partito, patente, laciniis
æquilateris, per æstivationem baud contortis. Stamina exserta: filamenta fauce inserta,
usque ad medium tubi decurrentia ibique intus dense pubescentia, apice glabra, simplicia:
antheræ sinu lato sagittatæ, medio stigmati cohærentes cupulamque obtusam supra illud
formantes: lobis posticis subulatis incurvis polline vacuis. Germina duo, villosa: Stylus
unicus, e basi oblonga attenuatus, glaber : Stigma incrassatum, subglobosum, 5-angulatum,
acutum. Squamoe hypogynæ 5 lineari-lanceolatæ, liberæ, omnino g labræ, germen superantes.
F ru tex erectus ? Rami puberuli. Folia glabra, petiolata, ovalia, basi subcordata, repente