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PENTANDRIA MONOfiYNJA. PiumbdgO. 



1. P. zeylanka, Wiltd. $p. i. 837- 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate-obiong, smooth. Racemes besprinkled 

 with glutinous hair. Bractes three, unequal. 



Tumba-codivelli, Rh-ed. Mat. 10. 15. t. 8. 



Chitraca, Asiat. Res. iv. 255. 



Sans. tflP5«f. Pathin, t^j^«ft> Cln'trwka ; also ^fg, Yuhni, and 

 all the other names of fire. 



Bens:. Chitra, Chita. 



& perennial shrubby plant, native of India.* 



Stems, many, jointed, smooth, somewhat declining, ramous, flexu- 

 <ous, from two to tour feet long, and about the thickness of a large 

 quill. Branches nearly bifarious. — Leaves alternate, short-petjoled, 

 ovate, waved, smooth, entire, about two to three inches long, and one 



and a half, ox two broad Petioles short, stem-clasping, channelled, 



w sub- winged. — Stipules none Racemes axillary, and also terminal, 



covered with much short glutinous hair. — Flowers pure white — 

 Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, the outer one is ten limes larger 

 than the lateral one, they are covered with the same gluten as the pe- 

 duncle of the raceme, sometimes there is a fourth linear bracte pres- 

 sing the calyx. 



2. P. rosea, Willd. Sp. I 838. Asiat. Res. xi. 175. 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate-oblong, smooth. Racemes smooth ; trades 

 three, smooth. 



Radix vesicatoria, Rumph. amb. v. 453 t. 168. 



,S,chetii codiyeli, Rheed. Mai. xii. 17. t. 9. 



Beng. llwkta-cha'tra, Lall-chit«. 



Native of Coromandel, and other parts of India. 



Perennial, shrubby; stems, branches, leaves, and petiols as in the 

 preceding. — Racemes axillary, and also terminal, smooth. — Flowers 

 iiarge, of a bright beautiful red.— Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, 



e Very common about Kjlainanda, Viiere it i? called Kooaboo.— - N. "\f. 



