448 DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Hirea. 
woody parts dark brown, and pretty smooth ; young 
shoots pendulous, round, and clothed with closely appres- 
sed hairs. Leaves opposite, petioled from ovate to cor- 
date, entire, tapering much toward the acute apex, having 
the upper surface glossy, with a few appressed hairs, and 
the under paler and more hairy, from four to eight inches 
long, and from two to five broad. Petioles round, hairy, 
from one totwo incheslong. Stipules minute, subulate, — 
pointed. Panicles terminal, and axillary, pendulous, 
large, composed of many, opposite, diverging, simple or 
compound racemes, and like the other parts clothed 
with appressed brown hairs. Bractes lanceolate, conic ; 
those of the ramifications solitary, those of the pedicel 
tern. Flowers numerous, opposite, small, yellow, ino- 
dorous. Calyx five-parted ; segments equal, oblong, ob- 
tuse. Petals five, oblong, sessile, expanding ; mamelli- 
ferous pores. Filaments ten, shorter than the petals, 
base broad and slightly united, inserted into the recep- 
tacle round the germ. Anthers oblong, erect. Germ 
superior, three-celled, with one ovula in each, attached 
to the axis. Styles three, length of the stamina. Stig- 
ma headed. Samara three, united, singly linear, and 
surrounded with a yery large entire reticulate, scariouS, : 
elliptical wing, one-celled, evalvular. Seed solitary, li- 
near, attached near the apex to the inside of the cell, In- 
teguments single, thin, brown. Perisperm none. Embry? 
inverse. Cotyledons two, equal, linear. Radicle ovate, 
superior. 
2. H. indica. R. . 
Shrubby, climbing. Leaves opposite, ovate, entire. 
Panicles axillary and terminal. Samara linear. 
Teling. Regrak tiga. 
A native of the Circar mountains. 
3. H. rotundifolia. R. : 
a ents Leaves emcees entire, villous 
