Lxx. RuniACE.T:. GO.") 



car/nnn, Dnh. in Kew .Toiirii. Eot. v. 2 (18.10) p, 2.j7 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 120.— Flowers: Oct. 



Rjiro. Kiiskan: Western Peninsula on tlicGlults from Honibay Houtliwards, 'I'lillml. 

 Saliv.idri mountains, lat. 1G° li.,Dahdl if Gibson. — Distkiii. Endemic in the Western 

 Peninsula of Jndiu. 



19. KNOXIA, Linn. 



Erect herbs or undershrubs ; stems terete or obtusely angled. Leaves 

 opposite ; stipules connate with the petiole into an entire or bristly 

 sheath. Flowers dimorphic, pink or lilac, subsessile on the elongating 

 branches of terminal cymes (rarely spicate), ebracteolate. Calyx-tnbe 

 ovoid or didymous ; tcetli 4, minute, and suboqual or 1 or 2 elongate, 

 ]HTsistent. Corolla-tube long, throat usually villons ; lobes 4, valvate 

 in bud, with inflexed tips. Stamens 4, inserted within the throat of 

 the corolla ; anthers linear, included or exserted. Ovary 2-celIi'd ; 

 ovule 1, pendulous in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit 

 smiill, of 2 semi-terete or dorsally compressed indehiscent cocci. Seeds 

 with a thickened funicle ; testa membranous; albumen ileshy ; embryo 

 axile ; cotyledons thin ; radicle superior. — Distuib. India, Java, Ciiina, 

 Philippines, Tropical Australia ; species 6-8. 



1. Knoxia corymbosa, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1 (1797) p. 582. An erect 

 annual 1-4 ft. high ; stem sparingly branched, somewhat stout, with 

 long internodes, often obtusely 4-angled, softly and more or less densely 

 hairy. Leaves 2-4 by ^-1 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sessile or 

 shortly petioled, acute, more or less hairy on both sides, tapering much 

 at the base into a short petiole; main nerves 8-12 pairs, conspicuous 

 on. the lower side, very oblique ; stipules with 3-5 filiform hairy bristles. 

 Flowers small, numerous, on the sides of slender pubescent branches of 

 large lax corymbose cymes ; pedicels very short, almost 0. Calyx .,L in. 

 long ; teeth minute, triangular, subequal. Corolla ^ in. long, soraew bat 

 club-shaped ; lobes short, ^--^jj in. long, triangular-oblong, subacute. 

 Fruit ^ in, long, sessile or shortly pedicelled, ellipsoid, 4-angled, secund, 

 iudehiscent, perforate at the base. The mericarps when ripe separate 

 from the persistent columella with the least pressure. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 128; Dalz. & Gibs. p. Ill ; Wight, 111. t. 128 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, 

 p. 340 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 645.— Flowers : 

 Aug.-Oct. 



Kon'kan: W;lg Donger near Viiigorla, Dalzell <f Gihsoii. S. M. Country: Londa, 

 Cookc\; Gauiji Station (S. M. Eailway), U'oodnnv I ; Belganm, Rifcl/ir, 1U8'J! 

 Kanaka : K:ila naddi, Ritchie, lOS'J ! — Distuib. Throughout Tropical India ; Ceylon, 

 Malay Archipelago, Tropical Australia. 



20. PLECTRONIA, Linn. 



Shrubs (sometimes small trees), armed or unarmed, sometimes scan- 

 dent. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate ; stipules connate. Flowers 

 axillary, fascicled, or in corymbose peduncled cymes, small, white or 

 green. Calyx-tube short, obconic, turbinate or hemispheric ; limb very 

 short, truncate or 4-5-tootbed. Corolla-tube infundibuliform, campa- 

 nulate, globose or urceolate, usually with a I'ing of detlexed hairs within; 

 lobes 4-5, at length reflexed, val\ ate in bud. Stamens 4-5, subsessile, 

 on the throat or mouth of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary 



