JPorana. pektandiua etonogynia. it 



half two-cleft, one of the divisions shorter. Stigma headed, some- 

 what two-lobed. — Utricu/us surrounded with five-scariose, equally 

 enlarged, permanent leailets of the calyx ; round, size of a small pea, 

 •smooch, brown. The rest as in the former species. 



3. P. rucemosa, R. 



-Animal, twining, filiform. Leaves cordate, the cauline ones peti- 

 oJed, the floral ones stem-clasping. Racemes axillary and termiual. 

 Carol live-cleft.* 



A native of Nepala, from thence introduced by Dr. F. Buchanan, 

 into the Botanic Garden, where it blossoms during the dry season. 



Stems annual, twining, slender, pretty smooth. — Leaves cordate, 

 entire, obtuse-pointed, soft, and smooth, the cauline ones are petiol- 

 ed; the flora! ones sessile, indeed, stem-clasping. — Racemes axiliary, 

 and terminal, long-peduucled, few-flowered — Bractes, the lower ones 

 like the flora! leaves, but smaller, those of the superior flowers very 

 small. — Flowers alternate, pedicelled, small, white. — Calyx five- 

 leaved; leaflets sub-lunceolate, growing with the pericarp into five, 

 scariose wings. — Corel sub-campauulate; tabe short, and rather gib- 

 bous; border five-parted ; segments oblong — Filaments short, unequal, 

 inserted into the tube of the corol near its bottom. Anthers ovate, 

 within the tube. — Germ ovate, one-celled, containing two seeds, at- 

 tached to its bottom. Style length of the stamens. Stigma oval, 

 apex two-lobed. — Vtriculas oval, smooth, of a very delicate, entire, 

 membranaceous texture, surrounded by the five leadets ol the calyx, 

 now enlarged into five scariose, cuneiform wings. — Seed as in the 

 preceding species. 



4. P. grandi/hra, Wall. 



Hairy. Leaves cordate, caudate-acuminate. Racemes axillary 



* I have had numerous specimens of this plant from the vicinity of Katitmancli 

 under the name of Lahara which, however, is the terra applied in ike Newaree lan- 



gua»e"for the word climber N. W. 



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