684 pentandria monogynia. Paederia. 



A pocynum Joetidum. Biirm. Ind. p. 71. 



]s rather a rare plant, I have only found it in the vicinity 

 of Calcutta, twining- up and over trees, &c. Flowering time 

 the beginning' of the cold season. Its root is used by the 

 Hindoos as an emetic. 



Stent ligneous, twining; young parts round, smooth. 

 Leaves opposite, long-petioled, oblong-cordate, pretty smooth, 

 entire. Stipules broad-cordate. Panicles axillary and ter- 

 minal, brachiate. Flowers numerous, of a deep pink colour. 

 JBractes ovate. Calyx five-toothed. Corol; tube pretty 

 long, somewhat gibbous, inside woolly. Border narrow, di- 

 vided into five cordate, crenulate segments. Filaments short, 

 inserted irregularly about the middle of the tube. Anthers 

 erect, within the tube. Germ inferior, turbinate, two celled ; 

 cells containing one ovulum each, attached to the bottom of 

 the cell. Style single. Stigma two-cleft ; segments various, 

 bent amongst the anthers. Berry dry, compressed, smooth, 

 with five lines on each side ; one-celled, two-seeded. Seeds 

 compressed, smooth, enlarged with a somewhat membrana- 

 ceous ring all round. Perisperm conform to the seed, but 

 scanty. Embryo large, erect. Cotyledons round, cordate. 

 Radicle short, inferior. 



2. P. recurva. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, acuminate. Corymbs termi- 

 nal, recurved. 



A slender shrubby species ; a native of Chittagong, where 

 it is chiefly found in moist situations amongst the hills, flow- 

 ering in the hot season. The seeds ripen in October and No- 

 vember. 



Stem and branches erect ; young shoots round, and smooth. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, acuminate, 

 pretty smooth on both sides, about six inches long, and from 

 two to three broad. Stipules as in the other rubiacece, with 

 a subulate, hairy point. Corymbs terminal, recurved, brachi- 

 ate, villous. Bractes opposite, ensiform. Calyx five-cleft, 



