Erycibe. pentandria monogynia. 585 



A native of Bengal, appears during- the end of the cold, 

 and beginning- of the hot season. 



Stems erect, four-sided, often very ramous, smooth, from 

 three to twelve inches high ; below brachiate, dichotomous, 

 with a flower in the fork. Leaves opposite, sessile ; the low- 

 ermost from oval to oblong, and three-nerved, the superior 

 linear, and half stem-clasping; all are smooth, and entire ; 

 about an inch long. Floivers long-ped uncled, solitary in 

 the divisions of the branches and two or three-fold at their 

 terminations. Calyx nearly as long as the tube of the corol, 

 five-cleft to the base ; divisions keeled and acute. Corol and 

 stamens as in the genus, the anthers becoming much twisted. 

 Germ oblong-. Stigma of two large, round plates, each sur- 

 rounded with a thick, glandular, pubescent, horseshoe-like 

 margin. Capsules oblong, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds 

 numerous, affixed to two longitudinal receptacles as in Gen- 

 tiana. 



Obs. I attend to the spirally twisted anthers, otherwise I 

 should from the structure of the capsules and two-lobed stig- 

 ma have considered it a gentiana. The fresh plant is consi- 

 derably bitter, consequently when dry much more so. In 

 the Banksian Herbarium I found specimens both of this and 

 C. carinata under my name. 



ERYCIBE. Roxb. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol one-petalled ; border ten-part- 

 ed. Germ superior, one-celled, from three to four-seeded, 

 attached to the bottom of the cell. Berry one-seeded. 



1. E. paniculata. Roxb. Corom. ii. 159. 



Erimia-Tali. Rheed. Mai. vii. 73. t. 39. 



A very large, climbing shrub; a native of the mountain 

 forests, theCircars, and the eastern border of Bengal ; young 

 shoots covered with much rust-coloured farina. Leaves al- 

 ternate, short-petioled, reflexed, linear, oblong, pointed, en- 



