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the latter, m its hairy scape, acuminate bractes, and ciliate calyx. It 
is also akin to P. lanceolata and eriophora.—N. W. 
. 8. P. erosa, Wall. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolar, acute, grossly and unequally repand-den- 
tate, smooth, sub-ciliate, five-nerved ; petioles short with woolly base. 
Scape adscending, compressed, slightly angular and hairy, nearly 
| equalling the leaves. Spike slender, equalling the scape in length, ` 
with distinct flowers, which are somewhat remote towards the base. 
A native of Nepala, growing with the preceding species. 
. Root consisting of numerous sub-simple fibres, from the liead of 
| which jssue several tufts of scapes and leaves. —Leaves almost 
smooth, about three inches long, , tapering towards the base; their mar. 
gins remotely and unequally sinuate, with large, unequal, triangular, 
acute teeth.— Petiols shorter than the leaves; their base widening, 
membrane-margined and woolly within.— Scape slender, adscending, 
somewhat compressed, when young, villous.— Spike much lengthen- 
ed, round, erect—F lowers distinct, becoming somewhat remote 
downwards, mostly geminate.— Bractes ovate, membrane-margined, 
with a green thick rib, shorter than the calyx. — Style villous.—Cap- 
sule ovate-oblong, with numerous ipis brown seeds.—N. W. 
CISSUS. Schreb. Gen. N. 192. 
* Calyr four-toothed. Corol four-petalled. Germ two-celled; ovula 
two, erect. Berry superior, from one to four-seeded. Embryo 
erect, in the base of an ample perisperm. 
EG. adnata, R : 
Leaves round do dam bristle-serrate, acuminate. Stipules ros 
cular, adnate, with gibbous centre, and scariose margins.  Cymes 
flat, flowers drooping. | 
A native of the country about Dacca, from thence the late Colonel 
Peter Murray sent it to the Botanic Garden, where it thrives well, 
. blossoms in May and June, and ripens its fruit in September. : 
