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Stamineal urceole 10-15-toothed, with 5-10 of the 

 teeth obtuse and sterile, and the 5 remaining ones 

 alternate and monantherous. Style 1 : stigma 5-- 

 sided . Carpels 5, bi-valved, 1 -seeded, connivent into 

 a subglobose echinated fruit : albumen none : cotyle- 

 dons leafy, convoluted. 



Named, in honour of a Duke d'Ayen, a patron of Botany. 



1. * Ayenia pusilla. Weak Ayenia. 

 Leaves ovate somewhat glabrous sharply serrated, 

 stems prostrate. 



Urticae folio anomala, flore pentaphyllo purpureo, fructu pen- 

 tacocco muricato, Sloane, I. 209. t. 1&2. f. 2. 



HAB. Town-Savannah Sloane. 



FL. ? 



Branching from the root, about 6 inches in length. Flowers 

 small, purple, axillary, solitary, shortly pedicelled, pendulous. 

 Sloane states that he found this plant growing among the grass 

 in the town of Savannah, 



2. * Ayenia laevigata. Smooth Ayenia. 

 Leaves ovate very glabrous entire, urceole exserted 

 with ten teeth besides the stamens. 



Swartz, FL 2nd. Occ. 1131. 



HAB. Thickets : rare Swartz. 



FL. ? 



Flowers axillary, solitary, crimson : pedicels longer than the 

 petiole. 



V. MELOCHIA. 



Calyx 5 -fid, naked or with 1-3 bracteas. Petals 

 5, patent. Stamens 5, monadelphous at the base. 

 Styles 5. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, with the valves 

 septiferous : seeds 1-2 in each cell. 



Name, derived from the Arabic. 



1. Melochia tomentosa. Downy Melochia. 



Leaves ovato-oblong crenated plicato-lineated on 

 both sides hoary-tomentose as also the branchlets, 

 umbels 3-8 flowered axillary or subterminal. 



Abntilon arboreum spicatum betonifje .folio incano, flore 



