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ones. Style 1, 5-cleft, segments reflexed. Carpels 5, 2-valved, 1-2 seeded, 
closely combined into a capsule. Seeds oblong, not winged. Cotyledons 
crumpled, bifid. 
* 249. (1) D. palmata (Cav.:) leaves palmately 5-7-nerved, 5-7-cleft ; 
. lobes lanceolate, serrated ; corymb bifid: leaves of the involucel broadly . 
ovate, concave: fertile stamens 15: style shortly 5-cleft: seeds solitary in 
each carpel.— Car. diss. 3. t. 38. f. 1; DC. prod. 1. p. 498 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 19; 
Wall. L. n. 1159 ; Wight! cat. n. 238. bis ——Sent to Dr Wight by his col- 
lectors, and not marked as a cultivated plant. We consider it, however, to 
be a doubtful native of the Peninsula. 
XII. MELHANIA. | Forsk. 
Calyx 5-partite, persistent, furnished with a 3-leaved lateral involucel. 
Petals 5. Stamens united into an urceolus around the ovarium ; 5 sterile, 
alternating with 5 filaments each bearing 1-2 anthers. Style 1, 5-cleft at the 
apex. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. Seeds several in each cell, angled, not 
winged. 
250. (1) M. ineana (Heyne:) suffruticose: leaves between elliptical and 
oblong-linear, obtuse, scarcely cordate at the base, slightly serrated, under 
side shining with.a short dense hoary pubescence: peduncles 1-2 flowered, 
about as long as the petiole: involucel-leaves linear, somewhat persistent: 
calycine segments lanceolate, acuminated: petals obovate, longer than the 
calyx: fertile filaments bearing 1 anther: capsule hairy: seeds 2—4 in each 
cell, tuberculated.—Heyne! in Wall. L. n. 1200; Wight! cat. n. 244.— 
Mysore ; Heyne, 15. Oct. 1801. Nabab-Sawadi near Palamcottah ; Klein, 
Nov. 16. 1795. : 
This has so much the appearance of Brotera ovata, Cav. ic. 5. t. 433, that — a 
we can ag see any character to separate them except the distinct a 
in the latter. It seems.also exceedingly closely allied to M. Burchellii, DC- 
XIII. PTEROSPERMUM. Schreb; Lam. ill. t. 576. 
Calyx leathery, 5-partite, somewhat tubular at the base; segments linear, 
tomentose outside, hairy within. Petals 5, oblique, shorter than the calyx- 
Stamina 20 (of which 5 are sterile), united at the base into a column with the 
stalk of the ovarium. Style slender, club-shaped. Capsule woody, 5-celled, 
5-valved. Seeds produced into a broad membranaceous wing. Albumen in 
small quantity or entirely wanting. Cotyledons crumpled. Radicle cylin- 
drical. EUR 
251. (1) P. rubiginosum (Heyne:) leaves very obli vate, unequall 
ene dite midrb and A. end on one! side) d bd bust; simili e 
quite entire ; under side covered with a dense soft rusty-coloured tomentum: — — 
peduncles rather longer than the petioles.— Heyne in Wall.! L. n. 11685 
G. Don in Mill. dict. 1. p. 538. ; 
The specimen before us is very imperfect. We do not know the locality. 
252. (2) P. suberifolium (Lam.:) leaves cuneate-oblong, shortly acumina- 
ted, coarsely toothed or somewhat lobed towards the apex, oblique and 4- 
nerved at the base ; under side clothed with a short thick pubescence ; veins 
scarcely prominent beneath: peduncles about 3-flowered, slightly longer than 
the petioles: involucel-leaves about 3, linear, entire, a little distant frem the 
flower, very caducous : petals linear-oblong, patent: sterile filaments filiform * 
ovarium with four ovules in each cell: capsule obovoid, acutish, outside en- 
crusted with a dense furfuraceous pubescence: seeds usually 2 in each ce? 
—Lam. ill. t. 576. f. 1; Wall.! L. n. 1166; Wight! in Hook. bot. misc. 9- 
suppl. t. 26 ; cat. n. 289.—P. canescens, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 50 ; in E. I. C. 
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