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J&EOBOTRYS INDICA. INDIAN B^OBOTRYS. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 5-partitus. Cor. l-petala. Germ, semi-inferum, l-lo- 

 culare, liberum, centrale. Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma. 

 Maesa. Forsk. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



BjEobotrys * indica ; fruticosa, foliis petiolatis oblongo- 

 ovatis acuminatis grosse serratis, racemis plerumque 

 compositis axillaribus terminalibusque. 



B.eobotrys indica. Roxb. FL indica inedit. Hort. Bengahl. 



The genus B,eobotrys, established by Forster, was well 

 described before by Forsrohl in his Flora iEgyptiaca, 

 under the name of MjEsa, constructed from its Arabic appel- 

 lation Maas. The double calyx is properly omitted by 

 Roxburgh, being only two small bractes at the bottom of the 

 calyx, which in our species are either wanting or are not both 

 close to the calyx. 



Jussieu places this genus in his natural order of Ericce, 

 but Mr. Brown has properly arranged it under his Myrsineae 

 (the Ophiosperma of Ventenat) : he observes that it bears the 

 same relation to this order, as Samolus does to that of the 

 ■Primulacece ; having a germen semi-inferum, and in some 

 species five barren filaments alternating with the segments of 



From BflMo,-, little, and florgw*, a bunch of grapes. 



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