TER EBINTHA CE JE. 341 



lobes of calyx (?) 4-5-mcrous connate at base, imbricated. Corolla 

 gamopetalous subcampanulate, inserted slightly higher than calyx (at 

 summit of short internode) ; lobes imbricate, finally patent. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternipetalous, inserted at base of corolla; filaments 

 short; anthers iutrorse 2-riraose. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, 

 descendent ; myci'opyle introrse superior ; style excentric inserted 

 slightly below the rather prominent apex of germen, subcapitate stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Fruit oboval-oblong, emarginate at apex, indé- 

 hiscent, longitudinally i? -winged; wings marginal transversely strio- 

 late nitid ; nucleus linear. Seed subpondulous linear-elongate sul- 

 cate ; coat very thiu ; embryo verysmall conical inverted within apex of 

 very densely fleshy-granular albumen. — An herb, sometimes suffru- 

 tescent at base, volubilc glabrous ; juice milky ; leaves alternate, 

 petiolate wide cordate, entire or lobed, membranous, digiti- or pedati- 

 nerved at base ; flowers ^ in furcate cymiferous axillary racemes, 2- 

 chotomous or paniculate, secund, sessile ebracteate, articulate at con- 

 cave base by a small process of branch. {Trop. Asia,^ Indian Arch?) 



in Beiiii. PI. Jav. Rar. 246, t. 49. — Endl. Gen. n. ■* Spec. 1 (according to various authors 4, 5), 



3888".— B. H. Geii. 355, n. 36.— H. Bn. Adan- Sell. C. Rumphii H. Bn. Adansonia. x. 280. 



sonia, X. 279 ; Prodi: 25. — Peripterygium Hassk. which is Olus sanguinis Eumph. Siici. Amioiii. v. 



Cat. Sort. Sag. 234.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 668. — 482, t. I%0.—Dioscorea sativa L. Amœii. iv. 133. 



Sioja Ham. (ex Lindl. loc. cit.). — W. Sp. iv. 895. — Cardioptei-i/s mnluecana Bl. 



' Small, white. Sumphia iii. 207, t. 177.— C. lobata U. Br. loc. 



- A genus of douhtful place, perhaps nn ac- cit. ; in Cat. Wall. n. 8033. — C. suhamata Wall. 



count of its hermaphrodite flowers, with appa- — Sioja saiiguiiiaiia Ham. — Peiiptenjgiiim ijuin- 



rently a true calyx, helter referred to Mappia. quelobum Hassk. 



