358 - — Mr. Coresnooxe’s Descripi 
TYLOPHORA exitis. 
5t Tam. XVI, 
Panicles terminating in umbellets. Corolline segments oval, ob- 
tuse. Leaves subcordate, acute, smooth, becoming firm, fleshy. 
Introduced into the botanical wiles at Calcutta i in 1810 from 
Chitagong, of which it is native. Bears flowers. and ripe seed in 
the middle of the rainy Lugust). 
Stem perennial, simple, scanden “twining with the sun, TEE 
yards in length, no thicker than a crow-quill; rooting at the 
joints if it trail on the ground: young parts. thinly beset with 
soft hairs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate to cordate, acute 
or even acuminate, entire, smooth on both surfaces, few- 
veined : old leaves firm, fleshy. Length 1—2 inches. Breadth 
half as much. Petioles i inch; round, somewhat channelled | 
on the upper edge. Flowers small, dilute purple, inodorous. 
Panicles subaxillary, solitary, ramous, lax, dichotomous, or 
flexuose with alternate divergent pedicels ; terminating in um- 
bellets ; ; many-flowered. Peduncles slender, round. Pedicels 
proper, somewhat clavate. Bractes triangular to ens iform, mi- 
 nute. Perianth five-parted. . Segments triangular. Corol rotate. 
Divisions oval, obtuse.. Nectary, or stamineous tube, round at 
the base, five-angled i in the middle. Germs ovate. Styles most 
.. short. Stigma flat, pentagonal. _Follicles oblong, tapering to 
ye s pointed apex, round on one side, flat on the other. Seed 
ovate, bracteate, convex with concave within, papillous, 
margined, denticulate at the base, .cinnamon-colour, crowned 
with a fascicle of many long silky hairs. 
The panicle of this, com pared with BM. us. umbels of some 
other Re Pate: plants, seems to indicate a derivation from 
£1 ae AO Sess 2 such 
