Potycarpaa. PARONYCHIACE EX. 357- 
stigmas 3, distinct, spreading.— Wight! cat. n. 1167.—T. cuneifolium ?, Wall. ! 
L. n. 6847. c.—— Chimmanackmoor. 
All authors describe T. cuneifolium with the lowest peduncles (or branch 
of the panicle) bearing 3, or, according to Roxburgh (fl. Ind. 2. p. 465), 
sometimes 4 flowers: in our specimens it is as much divided as any of the 
upper ones. Dr Wallich's n. 5847. b. is from the Calcutta Botanic Garden 
and therefore probably Roxburgh's plant: his a. is from Nepal; these we 
have not seen, but he not only seems uncertain about either being the true 
T. cuneifolium, but also as to whether our plant be the same as the others. 
Perhaps all may prove to be luxuriant states of the Arabian plant. 
ORDER LXXI.—PARONYCHIACEM. St. Hil. 
Subord. 1. IuuEcEBREE (R. Brown ). Sepals 5, sometimes distinct, 
sometimes more or less cohering. Petals between the lobes of the ca- 
lyx, sometimes conspicuous, usually small and resembling sterile sta- 
mens, sometimes wanting. Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, oppo- 
site the sepals (when equal to them in number), some of them occa- 
sionally wanting : filaments distinct, or rarely united : anthers 2-celled. 
Ovarium free: styles 2 or 3, distinct or partially combined. Fruit 
small, 1-celled, an utricle, or a 3—5-valved capsule. Seeds either nume- 
rous upon a central placenta, or solitary and pendulous from a long fu- 
niculus arising from the bottom of the fruit. Embryo lying on one 
side of a farinaceous albumen, more or less curved : radicle pointing to 
the hilum : cotyledons small .—Leaves opposite or alternate, entire, 
with scarious stipules. 
I. POLYCARPJEA. Lam.—Hagea, Ventn.—Mollia, Willd.—Lahaya, 
Roem. & Schult.—Polia, Lour. 
Calyx 5-partite or deeply 5-cleft ; sepals flat, membranaceous on the mar- 
gin, neither keeled nor mucronate. Petals and stamens 5, almost hypogy- 
hous. Style 1, filiform. Stigmas 3. Capsule 1-celled, 3-sided, 3-valved. 
Seeds numerous, attached to a central placenta.—Herbaceous or suffutescent 
plants, usually much branched. Leaves opposite, but apparently verticellate 
from the presence of very short axillary leafy branchlets. Stipules scariose. 
Flowers cymose or corymbose. 
1113. (1) P. spadicea (Lam. :) suffruticose : stems diffuse, much branched, 
and the SUA geet er: Mes from oblong-lanceolate to linear m 
ceous, a little obtuse or acute or mucronate, the younger ones — A "a 
mentose: cymes terminal, corymbose: sepals entirely scariose, "1 Te "is 
. àcuminated, 2-3 times longer than the capsule-—DC prod. 8. p. 97 ti may 
` tanthes corymbosa, Willd. sp. 1. p. 1200.—Lahaya corymbosa, Sch “ee 
5. p. 405.—Polia arenaria, Lour.—Mollia corymbosa, Willd. ?; Spr. “3 Sr 
P. 795.—2 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtusish; corymbs very weg ight ! 
cat. n. 1168.—P. spadicea, Wall. ! L. n. 1512. b (a not seen).—# ^ eaves ap- 
Proximated, oblong-linear, scarcely longer than the stipules, cited "n 
Somewhat acute, upper ones mucronate ; corymbs very dense.— Wight! E . 
^. 1169.—y ; leaves oblong-linear, bluntish or scarcely acute, gre ni! ess 
distant ; corymbs slightly dense or lax.—Wight ! cat. n. 1170,—P. densiflora, 
Wall! L.n. 1513 (partly).—Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 06.—? ; branches very slen- 
