132 . MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. ModcCCa. 



ma. Border cordate, woolly on the outside; margins a little 

 waved ; on its middle there is a green, fleshy, crenulate, sau- 

 cer-shaped body, or upper nectary, from the centre of which 

 rises the antheriferous column. Stamina ; Ji'aments single, 

 from the centre of the upper nectary of the border of the 

 calyx. Anthers five, adjoined to the enlarged apex of the 

 short filament. 



Note. This part of the fructification is in no respect situ- 

 ated as in the class Gynandria, for which reason I have remov- 

 ed it to Monadelphia. Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, con- 

 taining many ovula attached to the interior side of the cell, 

 which is there thick. Style short, sightly curved, ovate 

 toward the stamina. Stigma somewhat peltate. Capsule 

 beaked, one-celled. Seeds a few, oval, rugose, affixed to a 

 longitudinal receptacle on the inside of the base of the cap- 

 sules, which from its oblique situation appears to be its back 

 part. Embryo obovate, lodged in the apex of an ample 

 perisperm. 



MODECCA. R. 



Calyx tubular, coloured, five-parted. Petals five ; insert- 

 ed on the calyx. JVectary various. Germ pedicelled, one- 

 celled ; ovula many; attachment parietal. Capsule one-cell- 

 ed, three-valved. Seeds many. Embryo inferior, centrifu- 

 gal, and furnished with a perisperm. 



I have adopted Van Rheed's name for a generic one to this 

 family, which though nearly allied to Passijlora, seems suffi- 

 ciently distinct on account of its capsular seed-vessel and 

 monoicous habit. 



1. M. trilobata. R. 



Leaves three-lobed, with a gland under each sinus and two 

 at the base. Capsules oblong. 



Akund-Phul, the vernacular name in Chittagong, where 

 the plant is found in the moist forests growing to an extent 



