Hippocratea, | TRIANDRIA,MONOGYNIA, ~ 167 
the capsule. Integuments two; exterior a very thin, smooth 
membrane; interior rather thick and somewhat spongy. 
Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons oblong, pale 
green while recent. Plumula two-leaved. Radicle short, 
inferior. 
Obs. In the following species inion are ood to sdaaleas in 
the capsule, in every sai. respect it resembles bnctheth this 
species. 
3. H. arborea, R. 
Sub-arboreous, with climbing branches. Leaves opposite, 
oblong, serrulate, cuspidate. Corymbs axillary. Ceneuet 
linear-oblong, two-seeded. , 
B. Katha-paharia. | 
A native of the interior parts of India. It blinded’ in idee. 
ly, and the seeds ripen in March. 
Trunk tolerably straight, but short, about as thick as a. 
man’s thigh, covered with smooth; dark brownish ash-colour- 
ed bark. Branches and branchlets spreading and climbing 
to a great extent, young shoots round and smooth, indeed. 
highly polished ; many of them form the claspers. Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, drooping, oblong, taper-pointed, 
serrate, very smooth on both sides ; from six to seven inches 
long, and about three broad. Stipules none, but two or 
three small, dark brown, scaly gems are found in each axill, 
 €orymbs axillary, dichotomous, with a pedicelled flower in 
the divisions. Bractes opposite, small, permanent. Flowers 
very numerous and small, pale greenish yellow. Calyx 
beneath, generally four, though mnertions vy cena, . 
parted ; divisions rounded, and only about half the length of | 
the corol, Corol four, five, or six-petalled, (six is the m 0 st 
common, and I mapper oe wease 5 EN in a is comet 
perm: Félamen nnn te riot aaiied than pier 
Se. aes four-lobed, Germ ovate. Siyle short. Stigma 
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