Pentapetes. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 157 
1. D. ovula, Cavan. Diss. iii. p. 127. t. Al. f. 2. 
Leaves cordate-oblong, obtusely gland-serrate, from three 
to five-nerved, downy, particularly underneath. Corymbs 
terminal, dichotomous, with the extreme ramifications um- 
belliferous, Found indigenous on the Mauritius by Colo- 
nel Hardwicke, in flower in June and July. All the young 
parts densely clothed with minute, stellate, ferruginous 
pubescence, 
2. D. tihefolia, Willd. iii. 725. 
Shrubby. Leaves from five-angled, and sub-rotund, to 
cordate, all are serrate. Ssipulee subulate. Corymbs axillary, 
solitary, bifid. 
A very handsome, uncommonly scabrous shrub, a native of 
the Mauritius, from thence sent to the Botanic garden where 
it throws out most copiously its numerous corymbs of pret- 
ty, large, pale, rosy flowers, about the beginning of the cool 
season. While the plants are young, until the floriferous 
branchlets appear, the leaves are five-angled; afterwards 
they become simply cordate. 
PENTAPETES. Schreb. gen. N. 1122. _ : 
Calyx double; the exterior one three-leaved, caducous; 
the interior one five-parted. Coro five-petalled. Stamens 
twenty, of which five are longer and sterile. Capsule five- 
celled, many-seeded ; partition contrary. 
P. phoenicea, Willd. iii, 727. 
Leaves hastate-lanceolate, crenate-serrate. 
Ruktuka, Bhundhuka, Sanscrit names, 
Beng. Kat-Lala, Doopahuria. 
Naga-pu, Rheed. Mal. x. t. 56, is evidently this plant, 
while Sjasmin, vol, x. t. 1, is Hvbiseus phoeniceus, 
This elegant plant is annual, anative of wet rice-fields. 
Flowering time, the rainy season, 
