702 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ophiorrhiza, 
in the tube of the corol. Germ beneath, turbinate. Style 
as long as the stamens. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule ob- 
verse reniform, totally compressed, (two-lobed) ; on the out- 
side five ribs run down from the divisions of the calyx, mter- 
nally divided into two cells by a transverse partition, open- 
ing between the remains of the two fleshy nectarial lips, _ 
Receptacle sub-cylindric, free, aftixed to the partition near | 
its base. Seeds very numerous, angular. 
Obs, From my own knowledge, I can say nothing of the 
virtues, that have been by various authors ascribed to the 
root of this plant. Indeed I am rather inclined to look upon 
the whole t to be a fiction, 
2. 0. willond. R. 
Suffructicose, erect, villous. Leaves from oyate-oblong 
* to lanceolar. Corymbs terminal, long-peduncled, villous. 
A native of shaded, moist places amongst the hills of Chit- 
tagong; where it blossoms in May, and the seed ripens in 
three or four months. 
Stems a few inches hich, simple, eabsdigeied es while young 
hairy. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, veins 
many, large, parallel, and hairy ; from three to four inches 
long, and one or two broad. Stipules ensiform, villous. 
Corymbs terminal, solitary, rather long-peduncled, sub-glo- 
- bular, rough, with ferruginous pubescence, composed of a 
few recurved, short, villous branches, with the numerous, 
white, sub-sessile flowers on the upper, or convex side there- 
of. Calyx hairy, five-toothed. Corol fannel-shaped. Tube 
the length of the five segments, its mouth shut with hairs. 
Filaments five, inserted on the bottom of the tube of the 
corol, Anthers linear, erect. Nectary a fleshy bilabiate 
body on the top of the germ embracing the base of the style, 
as in O. Mungos. Germ turbinate, inferiét, two-celled, with | 
humerous ovula in each, attached to two large, free recepta- 
cles which are attached to the base of the partition, Style 
the length of the tube of the corol. Stigma large, two-lob- 
