Grislea. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 233 
short-petioled, oblong, acute, waved, smooth, about six 
inches long, and three broad. Floral leaves small, colour- 
ed, downy. Spikes numerous, terminal and axillary. 
Bractes opposite, lanceolate, one-flowered. Calyx cam- 
panulate, five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. vimmneetyt ten. 
Seed five-winged. 
12. C. purpureum. Willd. 2. 319. Vahl. Symb. 3.51. 
Scandent. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, glossy, 
underneath purple. Spikes panicled, terminal, flowers 
decandrous. 
Cristaria coccinea. Sonnerat. it. 2. 247. t.140. 
A native of the Mauritius, from thence introduced into. 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 
_ GRISLEA. Schreb. gen. n. 642. 
Calyx from four to six-toothed. Corol from four to six- 
petalled, inserted into the fissures of the calyx. Fila- 
ments long, ascending. Capsule superior, two-celled. 
Seeds numerous, “ 
G. tomentosa. Willd. 2. 321. Corom. pl, 1. N. 31. 
Shrubby, Leaves opposite, stem-clasping. _Racemes 
axillary. Petals minute ; stamina eleven, or twelve. 
Lythrum fructicosum. sp. pl. 641. 
Dhawry. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 42. . 
Sans. Agnijwala, and Dhatree. 
Teling. Seringir. 
Beng. Dhau-phool. 
pik very beautiful, flowering shrub, or small tree, a na- 
tive of the hills and vallies through the northern Circars, 
&c. &c. It flowers during the cold, and the beginning of 
the hot season, and the seed ripens in the rains. 
Stem and principal branches erect, smaller ascending. : 
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Bark rust-coloured ; twigs SoD : hemes opposite, 
