Paederia. pentandria monogynia. G85 



hairy; segments conic, permanent. Corol funnel-shaped. 

 Tube the length of the border, widening to the mouth, a lit- 

 tle hairy on the outside. Border of five, contorted, oblique- 

 ly oblong segments. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers five, 

 linear, erect, attached below the middle to the mouth of the 

 tube of the corol, and their lower ends in it. Germ hairy, 

 two-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the partition 

 a little above its middle. Style the length of the tube of the 

 corol. Stigma simple, linear-clavate, longer than the stami- 

 na. Berry inferior, size and colour of a black currant, when 

 dry striated, crowned with the remaining calyx, two celled. 

 Seeds solitary, the outside convex ; on the inside a deep pit 

 filled with the spongy receptacle. Integument single, thin. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, hard, dull white. Embryo 

 lodged in the middle of the convexity of the seed. Cotyle- 

 dons reniform. Radicle inferior. 



3. P. erecta. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves sub-sessile, broad-lanceolar, en- 

 tire. Panicles in the terminal forks of the branchlets, erect. 

 Stamina protruded. 



An erect, shrubby plant ; a native of the Silhet district. It 

 flowers in May and June ; and the seeds ripen about the end 

 of the rainy and beginning of the cold season. 



Stem short, erect. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 

 round, smooth, and dichotomous. Leaves opposite, sub-ses- 

 sile, broad-lanceolar, entire, smooth, ribbed with parallel 

 veins underneath ; from three to four inches long, by one and 

 a half broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, as in other rvbiacece. 

 Panicles solitary in the fork of the branchlets, often longer 

 than the leaves ; thin, being composed of a few small, short, 

 opposite ramifications. Flowers small, numerous, white, ino- 

 dorous. Calyx superior, short, slightly five-toothed. Corol 

 with a short tube which is woolly on the inside; segments of 

 the border oblong. Filaments short, inserted on the tube of 

 the corol. Anthers oval, scarcely exsert. Germ turbinate, 



