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CYANANTHUS lobatus. 
Lobed Cyananth. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. POLEMONIACEZ ? © (POLEMONIADS? Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 635.) 
CYANANTHUS (Wallich. Bentham in Royle’s Illustrations, p. 309) 
Calyz tubuloso-campanulatus, semiquinquefidus. Corolla hypogyna subin- 
fundibuliformis, tubo amplo, limbo quinquefido. Stamina 5, hypogyna, 
corollz lobis alterna, inclusa ; filamenta subulata, zequalia, libera ; anthere 
ovatz, conniventes v. connate. Ovarium quinqueloculare parietibus pilosis. 
Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali plurima. Stylus terminalis, simplex ; 
stigma quinquefidum. Capsula oblongo-conica, quinquelocularis, loculicido- 
quinquevalvis, valvulis carinato-cornutis. Semina plurima, oblongo-linearia. 
Embryo parvus orthotropus, in medio albuminis carnosi eoque dimidio brevior. 
Herbee nepalenses, parum ramose, procumbentes v. adscendentes ; radicibus 
carnosis; foliis alternis; floribus paucis solitariis, sepius terminalibus, calycibus 
nigro-villosis, corollis speciosis cæruleis. 
C. lobatus ; pilosus, foliis rhombeis subtus cinereis supra incisis infra indivisis, 
corolle laciniis sub apice barbellatis. 
C. lobatus, Wallich Cat. no. 1473. Bentham in Royles Illustr. p. 309, 
t. 69. 1. 
The station of this genus in the Natural System is unde- 
termined. Mr. Bentham originally referred it to Pole- 
moniads (Royle's lllustrations, p. 309) ; but he has more 
recently assigned it a station among Bellworts, relying upon 
the 5-celled ovary, the hypogynous stamens, and the milky 
juice. He would even station it near Wahlenbergia, “ dif- 
fering only in its free calyx, in the same way as L. xalapensis 
differs from L. Cliffortiana." Linn. Trans. xx. 82. We do 
not entirely acquiesce in this conclusion, although we fully 
admit the importance of the circumstances which Mr. Ben- 
tham relies upon. The difficulties that occur to our mind 
consist in the very small quantity of milk which flows when 
the plant is wounded, in the imbricated, not valvate, »stiva- 
tion of the corolla, in the small and imperfect ** collectors" 
on the style. Mr. Edgworth's description of the seed-vessel, 
