of : select Indian Plants. 357 
whict | Bip strongly adheres. Interior thin, brownish. 
onform to the seed, undivided, white, semitranspa- 
rent, horny. Germ almost half the length of the perisperm, 
milk-white. - Cotyledons cordate, three-nerved. Radicle se, 
cylindric, longer than th e cotyledons. . | w 
Compare with Str de Tieuté, Leschenault, Ann. du Mus. 16. 
479. pl. 23. and Tshittik, Hije; Bat. Trans. 7. , 
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DISCHIDIA. CBP 
Le oblong, ancipital. + Se d a | 
Native of Silhet, where it is ral like thet piniis Pará- 
rúhá; and thence introduced into the botanical garden at Cal- 
cutta by Mr. M. R. Smith. - Flowering season, April. 
Roots a few short slender fibres from each joint. Stem perennial, 
| parasitic, (by culture, terrestrial,) scandent, radicant, and some- 
^ times twining; round, slender, jointed, lactescent. Leaves at 
. thé joints, short-petioled, opposite, oblong, obtuse, smooth, 
firm, fleshy, two-edged, entire, veinless, yellowish-green. Length 
1—1 inch. Breadth 3—%.  Petioles round, less than a quar- 
ter of the length of the leaf. Umbels from alternate axils: 
short-peduncled, simple, few-flowered (about 10). Flowers very 
small, yellowish-white, inodorous. Perianth five-parted ; seg- 
ments ovate, coloured (white). Corol urceolate, five-toothed. | 
Throat villous. Toothlets ovate, erect. Nectary, or stamineous 
tube, subcylindric. Stamineous crown five-leaved. Leaflets su- 
bulate, bifid. Segments lanceolate, reflex, involute. Germs ovate. - 
Styles short. Stigma a pentagonal obtuse pyramid. 
The mature fruit | has not been seen. But the flower su fiicien " 
|. marks the ; genus. eod 
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Sad. . . LOPHORA 
