Dentclla, jeNTANduiA monogynia, 159 



1 . P. borbonica, Willd. Spec. ii. 229, 



Found indigenous on the Mauritius by Colonel Hardwick in 

 flower and seed in the months of August aud September; growing 

 to the size of a small tree, with dichotomous branchlets ; opposite, 

 short-petioled, entire, smooth, oblong leaves ; small axillary and ter- 

 minal trichotomous corymbs of minute pentandrous flowers. Germ 

 five-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of its 

 cell. Style short. Stigma two-lobed. Drupe, the size of a pea, 

 containing as far as five, nuciform, rugose seeds or nuts, each in its 

 proper cell. 



DENT ELL A Schreb. Gen. N. 310. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol infundibuliform ; segments three-toothed. 

 Capsule inferior, two-celled, many-seeded. 



1 . D. repens, Willd. Spec. i. 972. 



Crusta ollse. Caranasci. Rumph. Amb. v. 460. t. iTO.f. 4. 



Oldenlandia repens. Burm. ind. 38. t. 15. f. 2. 



A native of cool moist places, such as the shady banks of rivers, 

 and water-courses 



Root long, rarely perennial. — Stems many, creeping, jointed.-— 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, ciliate. — Flowers in the divi- 

 sions of the branches, sub-sessile, small, white. — Calyx five-parted ; 

 divisions lanceolate. — Corol five-cleft; segments linear, three-toothed. 

 ■ — Stamens five. — Style two-cleft near the bottom. — Capsule his- 

 pid ; receptacles reniform, free, affixed to the middle of the partition, 



Obs. Burman's figure of this plant is bad. 



TSYCIiOTRIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 313. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol tubular. Berry inferior, two-celled. 

 Seeds solitary, grooved ou the interior side, 



