132 MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Modecea. 
ma, Border cordate, woolly on the outside; margins a little 
waved; on its middle there is a green, fleshy, crenulate, sau- 
cer-shaped body, or upper nectary, from the centre of which 
rises the antheriferous column. Stamina ; filaments single, 
from the centre of the upper nectary of the border of the 
calyx. Anthers five, adjoined to the enlarged apex of the 
short filament. 
Note. This part of the fructification is in no respect situ- 
ated asin the class Gynandria, for which reason I have remov- 
ed it to Monadelphia. Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, con- 
taining many ovula attached to the interior side of the cell, 
which is there thick, Style short, sightly curved, ovate 
toward the stamina. Stigma somewhat peltate. Capsule 
beaked, one-celled. Seeds a few, oval, rugose, affixed to a 
longitudinal receptacle on the inside of the base of the cap- 
sules, which from its oblique situation appears to be its back 
part. Embryo qeavets, lodged in the apex of an ample 
perisperm. 
MODECCA. R. 
Calyx tubular, coloured, five-parted. Petals five ; insert- 
ed on the calyx. Nectary various, Germ pedicelled, one- 
celled ; ovula many; attachment parietal, Cupsule one-cell- 
ed, ae ved, Seeds many. Embryo inferior, centrifu- 
gal, and furnished with a perisperm. — 
Ihave adopted Van Rheed’s name fora generic one to his 
fatally} which though nearly allied to Passiflora, seems sufli- 
ciently distinct on account of its pipes seed-vessel ant 
monoicous habit. 
1. M., trilobata. R. 
Leaves three-lobed, with a gland iste oe sinus re +e 
at the base. Capsules oblong. : 
Akund-Phul, the vernacular name in secitinaghi whete i 
the plant is found in the moist forests growing to an extent — 
