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by short filaments on the mouth of the corolla ; anthers bifid at base 

 and apex, slightly exserted. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; ovules numer- 

 ous on peltate placentas attached to the septum : style filiform ; stigmas 

 2, exserted, linear, revolute. Capsule small, globose, crustaceous, 2- 

 celled, deliiscing septicidally by 2 valves. Seeds falcate or rather 

 square, somewhat compressed ; the testa reticulate and sub-acute ; 

 embryo small, clavate, iu fleshy albumen. — Distrib. Species 5 or 6, 

 Malaj'an and Burmese. 



Greenia Jackii, W. &A. Prod. 404. An evergreen shrub. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, minutely acuminate, gradually narrowed from above the 

 middle to the short petiole, drying brown : upper surface vs^ith the 

 midrib minutely pubescent ; otherwise spai'sely adpressed-puberulous, or 

 quite glabrous ; lower surface softly tawny-pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib and 20 to 30 pairs of sliglitly curved, spreading main-nerves, or 

 subglabrous; length 6 to 12 in.; breadth 2 to 3'5 in.; petioles '4 to 1 

 in., pubescent. Stipules broad, abruptly acuminate, '4 in. long, or 

 broadly lanceolate and about '6 in. long. Panicles terminal, branched, 

 shorter than the leaves, on long, compressed, pubescent peduncles, the 

 lower branches nearly as long. Flowers numerous, secund, sessile, "3 to 

 •35 in. long; the corolla several times longer than the calyx. Capsule 

 globose, less than '1 in. in diara. crowned by the spreading calyx-lobes ; 

 the epicarp adpressed, pubescent, peeling off and showing the glabrous 

 endocarp. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 41. Uondeletia corymhosa, Jack in 

 Mai. Misc. I. 4; B. spicata, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. 

 II. 139. Wendlandia ? corymhosa, Wall. Cat. 6276 ; DC. Prod. IV. 413 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burma. II. 75 ; W. ? spicata, DC. I.e. 412. 



In all the Provinces. 



Rather variable as regards pubescence and the shape of the stipules : differs 

 from the closely allied G. Wiglitiana, W. & A., chiefly in its leaves, having twice as 

 many nerves aa that species. 



10, Dentella, Forst. 



A small prostrate much-branched herb with 4-angled stems thinner 

 than a crow-quill, rooting at the nodes, 4 to 12 inches long. Leaves small, 

 shortly petioled; the stipules short, scarious. FloiCers small, solitary 

 iu the axils of the leaves and forks of the branches, sessile or shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx-tube sub-globose; the limb membranaceous, tubular, 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla white, funnel-shaped ; the tube hairy inside : 

 the limb with five 2- or 3-toothed lobes, valvate in the bud, but with the 

 edges induplicate. Stamens 5, attached in the middle of the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers included, dorsifixed, linear, entire at base and apex ; 

 filaments short. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules or hemispheric 



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