Codotinpsis, PEltTANDRlA MOtfOC-YSIA, 



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; — Style smooth, rounded, rather longer than the stamens, widening at 

 the persistent base. Stigma large, Meshy, sub-infuudibuliforrn, three, 

 lobed : lobes ovate, blunt, recurved Capsule nearly round, ten-nerv- 

 ed, pubescent, two-thirds inferior, its conical vertex considerably 

 elev:i'r-d above the calyx, which has now enlarged into a distinct 

 bruauish margin, with its distant Iacini<c reflexed; about the size of a 

 large cherry, three-celled, bursting partial^ at the apex into three 



smail divergent subulate valves. Dissepiments very narrow, ventral 



Tlacenta brge,ovale, convex, fungiform, inserted into the iuner angle 

 of the cells; their surface cellular.— Seeds exceedingly numerous, 

 minute, sub-cylindric, ferruginous. 



2 C. purpurea, If all. 



leaves ovate-oblong, smooth, together with the branches opposite.' 

 Calucine latinia triangular, spreading. 



A native of precisely the same places as the first species ; it is 

 however of much rarer occurrence on Sheopore,* (Shevopoora) and 

 more common towards the HimaJuya. Time of flowering the same. 



It is perfectly smooth on all parts. Stem as in the preceding ; 

 of a straw-colour, and shining when dry. Branches mostly oppo- 

 site, so as to give the plant a trichotomous appearance, jointed. — . 

 Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, in remotish pairs, ovate-oblong, 

 attenuate-acute, base rounded, from three to five inches long, entue 

 or obscurely crenulate, perfectly smooth, very glaucous underneath. 

 — Fetiols furrowed above, round, jointed at the base, half an inch 

 long. — Flowers large and showy, solitary, terminal, or in alternate ax- 

 ils, sometimes lateral, mostly erect, dark-purple, glaucous on the out- 

 side, fetid. — Peduncles naked, from one to three inches loDg — Calyx 



* This word is differently pronounced in different parts of India. It ought to 

 be written Shiva poora ; but my friend Wallich being desirous of writing the word 

 according to the provincial pronunciation of Nepala, his way of writing it is re- 

 tained in the text; though it is highly probable they pronounce it Shiwpoor, with 

 thei short as in tin, and not Sheopnre, with the e loDg as a in name, the sound al- 

 lotted to e iu every system of vviitiug Indian words with Rocaa leuers, Ed. 



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