70 FENTANDRlA MONOG"VNlA: Q)nvokulut[ 



■ 32. C. cespitosus, R. 



Annual, or, biennial, creeping. Leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth. 



Peduncles longer than the petioles, from one- to four-flowered. 



Calyx smooth. Capsules one-celled, four-seeded. 



A native of the dry lands of Dinagepore and Rungpore, from 



thence the seeds were sent, by Dr. Carey, to the Botanic Garden at 



Calcutta, where they blossom during the cold season.* 



Root generally annual, though sometimes biennial. — Stem; I cannot 



say there is any thing like one, but numerous, slender, round, ces- 

 pitose, somewhat villous, and, in some parts, even hairy branches, 



spread close on the earth, and strike root ; length of the larger 

 branches from one to three feet. — Leaves petioled, linear-lanceolate, 

 smooth, entire, from two to three inches long, and less than half 

 an inch broad. — Petioles clothed with long, soft, brown hairs. — Pe- 

 duncle axillary, longer than the petioles, hairy near the base, bear- 

 ing from one to four, small, very pale-yellow flowers, but when 

 one, or two, these are accompanied with the rudiment of one or two 

 more, and some small, cordate, smooth bractes. — Calyx; leaflets 

 oval, equal, smooth, concave, with callous, smooth, dark green 

 margins. — Stigma of two round lobes. — Capsules globular, smooth, 

 size of a pea, one-celled, four-seeded. — Seed smooth, deep brown, 



33. C. (Ipomf) Rheedii, Wall 



Stems perennial ? creeping, together with the leaves thinly beset 

 with refiexed hairs ; leaves remote, short-petioled, lanceolate-oblong; 

 the lowermost ovate-oblong ; retuse with a small point ; peduncles 

 axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, from one to three-flowered, the 

 exterior leaves of the calyx very large, ovate-cordate, scariose, con-» 

 cealing the interior linear-lanceolate ones. 



Ben-tiru-tali, Rkeed. Mai ii. \\l.t. 54. 



* I have had specimens of this as also of C. blandus (see p, 50), from Penan£, 

 where they had bsea gathered by my friend Mr. Jack.— JS. W". 



