532 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, —s-_ ©. Dentellla, 
ior, from four to six-celled. Nut solitary, one-seeded. E’m- 
bryo erect, and furnished with an ample perisperm. 
1. P. borbonica, Willd. spec. ii. 229. 
Found indigenous onthe Mauritius by Colonel Hardwicke, 
in flower and seed in the months of August and September ; 
growing to the size of a small tree, with dichotomous branch- 
lets ; opposite, short-petioled, entire, smooth, oblong leaves; 
small axillary and terminal trichotomous corymbs of minute — 
-pentandrous flowers, Germ five-celled, with one ovulum in 
each, attached to the bottom of its cell. Style short. Stigma 
two-lobed. Drupe, the size of a pea, containing as far as five, 
nuciform, rugose seeds or nuts, each in its proper cell, 
DENTELLA. Schreb. gen. N. 310. ; 
Calyx five-parted, Corol infundibuliform ; segments three- 
toothed, Capsule inferior, two-celled, many-seeded. 
1. D. repens. Willd. spec. i. 972. 
Crusta olle. Caranasci. Rumph, Amb. v. 460, t. 170. fs ‘é 
Oldenlandia repens. Burm. Ind. 38. t. 15. f. 2. ; 
- A native of cool mnie places such ne the nimdy. pankist 
Yivers, and water-courses, 
_ Root long, rarely perennial, Shieomememiniegy joint. 2 
el, dou opposite, abovicesioled, oval, ciliate, » Flowers 
Galas ia pettehy iesuioas: lanceolate,” Coral: five-cleft; 
segments linear, three-toothed. Stamens five. Style two= 
cleft near the bottom, Capsule hispid ; receptacles renjlorm, 
free, affixed to the middle of the partition. 
Obs. Burman’s figure of this peaches is spend 
