. Pladera.:  TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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four broad membranaceous wings. Branches opposite, and like the 
stem ; all are smooth. Height of the whole plant about eighteen i in- 
' ches.— Leaves of the stem opposite, sessile, lanceolate, three-nerved. 
" Floral leaves perfoliate, all smooth and entire.— Flowers terminal, 
peduncled, numerous, pretty large, pale rose colour.—Ca/yz four- 
toothed, striated, permanent.— Corol irregular, somewhat two-lip- 
ped; the upper one larger and deeply two-parted, the lower one 
consisting also of two lobes, but smaller.— Filaments four, three of 
them rather shorter, and inserted on the upper side of the tube ; the 
third larger, and inserted below the fissure of the lower lip. Anthers 
-oblong.— Style as long as the stamens. Stigma two-parted. Seg- 
ments recurved.— Capsule oblong, one-celled, two-valved. 
Di PS pusilla, R. 
Annual, from one to two inches high. Leaves sessile, sub-cor- 
date. Flowers terminal, sessile, three-fold, monandrous. Corol hid 
‘in the calyx. Capsule globular. 
Compare with Hopea dichotoma.* Vahl. Enumer, i. p. 3; also 
with Exacum sessile, Willd. i, 635. 
A beautiful minute plant, a native of Coromandel. 
Stem erect, four-sided, branchy ; from one aud a half to two inches 
high. — Branches cross-armed.— Leaves opposite, sessile, cordate, mi- 
nute, smooth.— Flowers terminal, sessile, three-fold, small, yellow. 
— Calyx one-leaved, sub-cylindric, as long as the corol, four-tooth- 
ed, permanent.— Corol one-petalled. Tube a little gibbous, mouth 
four-toothed.— Filaments four within the tube of the corol, and in- 
serted into it near the base. Anthers, three minute, and abortive ; - 
one large and fertile.—Germ globular. Style short. Stigmas two, 
globular.— Capsule oval, covered by the calyx, one-celled, eee 
ed, Seeds numerous, black. - 
* Sir J. E. Smith has confirmed the identity of this plant (which Dr. Roxburgh 
formerly referred to Exacum) with Hopea of Vahl, See -— Article in Rees's Cyclop, 
—N. W. 
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