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dense. Flowers pedicelled ; calyx narrow-campanulate ; 
petals obcordate. 
Cou-luta the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 
digenous. Flowering in January and February. 
Stem and branches scandent ; the young shocts often 
twining. Leaves opposite, or nearly so, petioled, sub- 
rotund, entire, smooth ; from three to five inches long, 
and nearly as broad. Petioles about an inch long. Ra- 
cemes axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, short, cylin- 
dric, crowded with numerous, small, straw-coloured, 
pedicelled flowers. Bractes subulate, one-flowered, 
caducous. Calyx narrow-campanulate, four-toothed. 
Petals four, obcordate, and about as long as the teeth 
ofthe calyx. Filaments eight, long and slender, just 
under the insertion of each is a hairy gland. Germ lan- 
ceolar, four-sided, one-celled, containing two ovula at- 
tached to the top of the cell. 
3. C. costatum. R, 
Scandent. Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth, veins 
Single and parallel. Spikes axillary, single, or paired ; 
calyx cup-shaped ; petals lanceolar, minute. 
Tali jooniar the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
agi and like the other East India species, a large, 
Scandent shrub. Flowering time March and April. __ 
_ Branchlets opposite, or dichotomous, round, and 
smooth. Leaves opposite short-petioled, oblong, taper- 
Pointed, entire, smooth on both sides ; veins simple and 
parallel ; about six inches long, and three broad. Sti- 
pules none, Spikes axillary, and terminal, single, or in 
-Pairs, subsessile, from one to two inches long. Flowers 
numerous, scattered, small, dull yellow. Bractes mi- 
_ ‘Rute, one on the under side of each germ. Calyx cup- - 
Shaped, obscurely four-toothed, pretty smooth and eyen 
a on both sides, < Petals fows, very small, lanceolar, : 
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