Hippocratea, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. -169 
- 2. O. imbricata. R. ; 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves bifarious, from ovate-lanceolate to 
oblong, entire, glossy. Racemes axillary, before the flower expands 
bifationsly imbricated, (like the spicule in Briza.) Drupes ovate. 
A very large climbing shrub, or tree, if any scandent plant can be 
so called; a native of Chittagong, where it flowers i in the hot sea- 
son, > 
LOEFLINGIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 71. 
- Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Capsules superior, one-cel- 
led, three-valved.- ers T 
.. 3. indica. Tio Sp. Pl. ed. Will. 1.191. Retz. Obs. - 
Annual, diffuse, branchy. Leaves sub-verticelled, cuneiform ` 
Flowers terminal: Style three-cleft. Calyr fleshy. 
~ Pharnaceum depressum. Mant. 564. 
.À small, diffuse, annual plant; appearing and flowering in the 
cold season. $ 
Stems many, pressing on the ground, branchy.— Leaves opposite. 
- sessile, with many smaller ones from their axills, which makes them 
appear verticilled, oval, smooth, from a quarter to half an inch. long. 
—Stipules four-fold, membranaceous, with many small similar scales _ 
about. the flowers.— Flowers sessile in the divisions of the branches, 
and terminal, Petals iner, with three or four-toothed apices. 
HIPPOCRATEA. Schreb. Gen. N.73. | 
Calyx five-parted. Petals five. Germ three-celled ; ovula a few, Er. 
attached to the axis. Capsules three, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds 
Piembrane-winged. Embryo erect, without perisperm, » 
LH. indica. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 198. Corom. Pl. 2. Nass 
Shrubby , climbing by tendrils. Leaves oblong, venticgat EPDE ai 
= axillary. Capsules po m y po 
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