48 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Aschpias. 



bove convex. Nectary, five bodies surroundino; the pis- 

 tillum, firmly united at the base but tapering from thence 

 upwards into a sharp point. A single one detached, and 

 veivved side ways, is seen to be split more than half way 

 down, and the exterior lamina is again half two cleft ; 

 the interior is concave, pressing upon the anthers, (yellow 

 scales,) and receives from them a coloured impression. 

 Stamens as in the genus. Germs two, ovate. Styles scarce- 

 ly any ; common stigma turbinate, round the upper part of 

 which the five pair of yellow anthers are fixed to its 

 five minute, dark brown, hairy angles. Follicles two, 

 large, oblong, tapering to a point. Seeds numerous, im- 

 bricate, ovate, compressed, surrounded with a membra- 

 naceous wing, aud crowned with a long coma. Recepta- 

 cle cylindric, spongy, free. 



22 A. pallida. R. 



Leaves long-cordate, smooth. Umbels short-peduncled, 

 simple or compound ; tube of the corol gibbous, length of 

 the oval genitalia ; segments of the border linear. Fol- 

 licles smooth, lanceolate. 



A native of various parts of India. Flowering time, the 

 rainy season. It has a great resemblance to Vahl's Per' 

 gularia purpurea. The flowers are pale yellow, and not 

 fragrant, or in a very small degree. 



Stems ligneous, perennial, twining up and over trees of 

 considerable size. Young shoots round, slender, and 

 clothed with small, soft recurved hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, long-cordate, entire, acute, smooth, but soft ; 

 three or four inches long, and less than one and a half, or 

 two broad. Petioles an inch long, slender, villous, and 

 slightly channelled. Umbels between the leaves, (lateri- 

 folius,) very short-peduncled, often compound. Pedicles 

 longer than the peduncles, villous. Bractes ensiform, one 

 under the insertion of each pedicel. Flowers numerous, 

 drooping, pale yellow^ inodorous. Ca7?/x five- parted, shor- 



