524 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Jacrocnemum. 
five oblong segments of the border recurved. Filaments - 
from the five ribs of the tube of the corol, nearly as long as 
the border. Anthers incumbent. Germ beneath. Stigma 
large, two-cleft. Capsules minute, villous, crowned with the 
withered calyx, two-celled, opening at the apex within the 
calyx. Seeds many in each cell, small, rugose, attached to — 
an elevated receptacle, which is attached to the middle of the 
partition. 
A, R. tetrandra. R. 
_ Shrubby. Leaves lanceolate, sessile. Stipules pinnati-— 
fid. Flowers axillary, glomerate, tetrandrous, Capsule 
many-seeded, 
A shrubby species; a 1 native of Pulo Pinang: 
Stem straight; branches erect, smooth, four-sided, with the 
angles sharp on the young shoots. Leaves opposite, sessile, 
lanceolate, smooth. Stipules sub-pinnatifid, containing the 
inside of the base of the leaves, tapering to an awled point. 
Flowers numerous, short-peduncled, crowded in the axills, 
and mixed. with many, lanceolate, ciliate bractes. Calyx, 
corol, stamens and pistil as in the genus. Capsule small, 
black, angular, Seeds numerous, immersed in the —- 
cles, as in a nidus, 
| ae PS R. 
sules pie Seeds: numerous, alk 
Found indigenous. on the Island of ear by ¢ Colonel 
Hardwicke in flower and with ripe seed.in June and July, — 
_».., MACROCNEMUM. Schreb. gen. N.297, 
Calyx sBrertorthed. Corol a SPAIN Pree infasionss 
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