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- MELopINUs mMoNocynus. East INDIAN 
MELODINUS. 
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Class and Oder 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
~ Contorta.  Bacca bilocularis, polysperma. Faux co- 
rollé coronata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
MEtopinus monogynus ; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 
panicula terminali, laciniis corolla tubo longioribus. 
MELopinus monogynus ; foliis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis, — 
panicula glaberrima. Bot. Reg. 834. - : 
Metopinus monogynus. Carey Hort. Beng. p. 39. 
as 
nogynus and scandens belong to the same genus, whatever 
may be the state of the styles in the two species; the most 
remarkable difference in their flowers, beside that of size, 
which is much greater in our plant, is, that in scandens, 
the limb of the corolla is only half the length of the tube, 
whereas in monogynus the limb is longer than the tube, a 
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