4§ PENTAN'aiUA KOKOGYNia; CvnvoUuldS. 



Communicated to me by the late Mr, M. R. Smith, from Silhet, 

 ill November 1815. 



Stem slender, scarcely thicker than a packthread, seemingly her- 

 baceous, covered with long whitish hair, as are also all the other 

 parts of the plant; divided into a few branches. — Leaves ovate- 

 cordate, mostly entire, those of the lower part of the plant sub tri- 

 lobate or with a broad acute lobe on one of the aides, from live to 

 seven-nerved, hairy on both sides, glaucescent underneath. — Petioles 

 slender, round, furrowed, about two-thirds the length of their leaves. 

 — Stipules none. — Corymbs solitary, many-flowered, sub-capitate, 

 hairy, on a thick, flattened, slightly bind peduncle, an inch long. — ■ 

 Flowers rather small, pure white, on short capillary pedicels, each 

 having a pair of opposite small lanceolate bractes at the base — Ca- 

 lyx compariulate, very hairy without ; haves lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membrane-margined, equal. — Corolla campanulate, an inch and halt 

 long, somewhat widening at the base ; limb plicate, slightly five- 

 lobed, acute. —Filaments short, smooth, subulate, attached to the 

 centre of the convex back of live lanceolate, acute, extremely villous 

 nectarial valves, which are inserted on the base of the corolla, cou- 

 verging over the ovarium. — Anthers erect, ovate, two-lobed, below the 

 middle of the corolla. — Ovarium ovate, smooth, obscurely four- 

 furrowed, surrounded by a narrow, entire, fleshv, yellowish, annular 

 yectary, two-celled, four-seeded; ovula cylindrie, erect. — Slijle fili- 

 form, shorter than the stamens. — Stigma papillose, capitate, bilobed. 

 Fruit not seen.— N. W. 



4, Cfastigiatus, R. 



Twining, perennial, smooth. Leaves cordate, smooth. Cymes 

 long; peduncles many flowered. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal; in flower, and full foli- 

 age most part of the year. 



Root perennial. — Stems and branches numerous, twining; all the 

 sub-ligneous parts scabrous; young shoots running over bushes to an 



