Hippocraiea. teiandria moxocynia, 169 



2. O. imhricata. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves bifaiious, from ovate-lanceolate to 

 oblono-, entire, glossy. 'Racemes axillary, before the hower expands 

 bifariously imbricated, (like the spiculai in Briza.) Dnqirs rvate. 



A verv large climbing shrub, or tree, if any scandent plant can be 

 so called ; a native of Chittagong, where it flowers in the hot sea- 

 sou. 



LOEFLINGIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 71. 



Co /ya: five-leaved. Coro/ five-petalled. Capsu/es superior, one-cel- 

 led, three-valved. 



1. L. indica, Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1. 191- Retz. Ohs. 48. 



Annual, diffuse, branchy. Leaves sub-verticeiled, cuneiform 

 Floraers terminal. Sti/ie three-cleft. Calj/x fleshy. 



Pharnaceum depressum. Mant. 564. 



A small, diffuse, annual plant ; appearing and flowering in the 

 cold season. 



Stems many, pressing on the ground, branchy. — Leaves opposite 

 sessile with many smaller ones from their axills, which makes them 

 appear verticilled, oval, smooth, from a quarter to half an inch long. 



Stipules four-fold, membranaceous, with many small similar scales 



about the flowers. — Flozvers sessile in the divisions of the branches^ 

 and terminal. Petals linear, with three or four-toothed apices. 



HIPPOCRATEA. Schreb. Gen. N. 73. 



Ca/yjc five-parted. Petals five. Ge/V7z three-celled ; oi;ifZ(2 a few, 

 attached to the axis. Capsules three, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds 

 membrane-winged. Embrf/o erect, without perisperm. 



1. H. indica. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1. 193. Corom. PL 2. iV. 130. 

 Shrubby, climbing hy tendrils. Leaves oblong, ventricose, serrate. 

 Corymbs axillary. Cupsides oblong^ two-seeded. 



