AHippocratea. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 171 
Germ three-lobed, immersed in the thick, fleshy nectary, three- 
celled, each cell containing several seeds, attached to the axis.—Siyle 
the length of the filaments ; stigma three-toothed.— Capsules three, 
obovate, thin, smooth, slightly veined, about two inches long, by 
one and half broad, one-celled, two valved.— Seeds generally four in 
, each: capsule, two on each#ide, lodged about its middle, of a nar- 
row-obiong shape, with a large, oblong, membranaceous wing pro- 
ceeding from the base, and attached by its extremity to the very base 
of the capsule. Integuments two; exterior a very thin, smooth mem- 
brane ; interior rather Mick and cake oni spongy.— Perisperm none. 
—Embryo erect. Cotyledons oblong, pale green while feeent Plu- 
mula two-leaved. Radicle short, inferior. = x d 
Obs. In the following species there are onby t two o beds i in "A 
capsule, in every other respect it resembles exactly this species. 
3. H. arborea. R. 
Sub-arboreous, with climbing branches. Leaves opposite, oblong, 
serrulate, cuspidate. Corymbs axillary. Capsules linear-oblong, two- 
seeded, 
_ B. Katha-paharia. 
-— A native of the interior parts of India. — It blossoms in July, and 
the seeds ripen in March. | 
Trunk tolerably straight, but short, about as thick as a man’s thigh, 
Covered with smooth, dark brownish ash-coloured bark. Branches 
and branchlets spreading and climbing to a great extent, young 
shoots TOR. and smooth, indeed highly polished ; - many of them 
- form the claspers.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, drooping, ob- 
long, taper-pointed, serrate, very smooth on both sides ; from six 
to seven inches long, and about three broad. —Stipules none, but two 
9r three small, dark bfown, scaly gems are found in each axil.—Co- 
tymbs axillary, dichotomous, with a pedicelled flower in the divisions. 
—Bractes opposite, small, permanent.— Flowers very numerous ü 
small, pale greenish yellow.— Ca/yz beneath, generally four, oug 
| Sometimes five or even:six-parted ; divisions rounded, and only about 
-half the length of ‘the corol.—Corol inii five, or r sispetaed (six 
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