584 pentandria monogynia. Chironia. 



9. A. glandulosa. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, margins coloured and glan- 

 dular. Umbetlets sub-terminal, numerous, long-peduncled, 

 globular. 



2?Mn-nwn*kalee the vernacular name in Silhet, where the 

 shrub is indigenous, flowering in the rainy season. 



Leaves alternate, short- petioled, lanceolar, smooth, margins 

 coloured, somewhat repand, and strongly marked with little, 

 elevated, dark-coloured glands on and rather under the 

 margin ; from four to six inches long, and an inch or an inch 

 and half broad. Umbellets generally from four to eight, 

 alternate at and round the extremities of the numerous 

 smooth branchlets, long-peduncled, few-flowered, and glo- 

 bular. Flowers small, white, short-pedicelled. Calyx fiye- 

 parted, marked with ferruginous spots. Corol alternate, 

 the tube being very short ; segments of the border five, 

 round, emarginate ; imbricated in the bud. Filaments in- 

 serted on the base of the tube. Anthers large, sub-sagittate, 

 sides firmly united, forming a little dome over the mouth of 

 the tube. Germ ovate, one-celled, and containing one ovu- 

 lum, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style slender. Stig- 

 ma rather enlarged, and even with the top of the anthers. 



CHI RON I A. Schreb. gen. N. 349. 

 Corol rotate. Pistil declined. Stamina inserted on the 

 tube of the corol. Anthers at last spiral. Pericarp two-valv- 

 ed, one-celled. Seeds numerous. 



1. C. centaur eoides. R. 



Annual, erect, four-sided, first bracbiate, afterwards dicho- 

 tomous. Leaflets of the calyx keeled and acute. Leaves 

 sessile, from oblong - to linear, sub-tri-nerved. Stigma two- 

 lobed. 



Chironia carinata. Herb, Banks, 



Beng, Qinni, 



