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thers are lodged. Border of five, large, wedge-shaped, 

 very obliquely, smooth, entire ses^ments. Fit short. Ati- 

 thers sagittate, lodged just within the tube of the corol. 

 Germ two lobed. Style nearly as long as the tube of the 

 coroJ. Stigma bifid, issuing from the apex of an enlarg- 

 ed glutinous gland. 



T. per^icariafolia. Willd. 1. 1246. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, lanceolar. Panicles ter- 

 minal and axillary, small, dichotomous. Follicles many- 

 seeded. 



A small tree, with smooth opposite and dichotomous 

 branches and branchlets. Flowers rather small, pale yel- 

 low. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



CEROPEGIA. Schreb. geu. n. 431. 



Ca/yx five-toothed. Corol with the divisions of its 

 borders converging. Nectary surrounding the fructifica- 

 tion, protruding five sterile filaments. Follicles linear. 

 Seed comose. 



1. C. Candelabrum. Willd. 1.1275. 



Perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves ovate-oblong. Urn- 

 hells pendulous. 



Njota-njoden-valli. Rheed. mal. 9. t. 16. 



Native of Malabar. It flowers in the rainy season in 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. 



2. C. hulhosa. Willd. 1. 1275 R. Corom. pi. 1. N. 7. 

 Root tuberous, perennial. Sterna herbaceous, twining. 



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