684 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Paederia. 
Apocynum fetidum. Burm. Ind. p. 71. 
Is rather a rare plant, I have only found it in the vicinity 
of Calcutta, twining up and over trees, &c. Flowering time 
the beginning of the cold season. Its root is used by the 
Hindoos as an emetic. $54) 
Stem ligneous, twining; young parts round, smooth. 
Leaves opposite, long-petioled, oblong-cordate, pretty smooth, 
entire. Stipules broad-cordate. Panicles axillary and ter- 
minal, brachiate. Flowers numerous, of a deep pink colour. 
Bractes ovate, Calyx five-toothed. Corol; tube pretty 
long, somewhat gibbous, inside woolly, Border narrow, di- 
vided into five cordate, crenulate segments. Filaments short, 
inserted irregularly about themiddle of the tube, Anthers 
erect, within the tube. Germ inferior, turbinate, two-celled ; 
cells containing one ovulum each, attached to the bottom of 
the cell. Style single. Stigma two-cleft ; segments various, 
bent amongst the anthers. Berry dry, compressed, smooth, 
with five lines on each side ; one-celled, two-seeded, . Seeds 
compressed, smooth, enlarged with a somewhat membrana- 
ceous ring all round, Perisperm conform to the seed, but 
scanty. Embryo large, erect. Cotyledons round, cordate. 
Radicle short, inferior. 
2. P. recurva, R. aetite: 
Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, acuminate. Corymbs termi- — 
ual, recurved, = 
a ia’ slender shrubby species 5 a native of Chittagong, where 
ering in the hot season, ‘The seeds ripen in October and No- 
vember. 
_ Stem and branches erect ; young shoots round, and smooth. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, acuminate, 
pretty smooth on both sides, about six inches long, and from 
two to three broad. Stipules as in the other rubiacea, with 
asubulate, pei. point. Corymbs terminal, recurved, brachi- 
: us, Br opposit ensiform, _ Calyx five-cleft, 
