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of leaves ; ramifications fleshy, rather short ; a pair of small bractes 

 under each divisi >n. — Flowers rather large, ternate, short-pedun- 

 cled ; the intermediate ones sessile. — Calyx cup-shapejd, truncate, ob- 

 srmelv five-toot'ied — Corolla funnel shaped, four times longer than 

 the calyx, with a five-parted lanceolate border. 



5. P. connata, Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, greatly tapering downwards, sub- 

 .aessile, smooth. Slipules ovate, acute. — Corymbs terminal, long-pe- 

 dunded, tiichotomous, with connate, infundibaliform, sub-lobate 

 bractes. Flowers sessile, ternate. Calyx truncate. Corolla infundi- 

 buliform, with a bearded throat. 



Specimens of this species are preserved in the late Dr. B. Heyne's 

 herbarium, without any name, dated 26th July, l8l8. 



Shrubby? smooth on all its parts. — Branches round, the upper- 

 most alternately compressed. — Leaves opposite, spreading, sub- 

 approximate, entire, lanceolate, acuminate, tapering much from 

 above the middle downwards, coriaceous; nerves slender, sub oppo- 

 site, with foveolate axils. — Stipules ovate, cupidato-acute, slightly 

 recurved at the apex, twice as long as the petiols, the uppermost 

 broad-ovate, acuminate. — Petiols very shoit, scarcely exceeding two 

 lines in length, channelled above. — Corymbs terminal, long-pedun- 

 cled, ovate; the first ramifications umbelled, the rest trichotomous. 

 Peduncles compressed, somewhat angular: common one slender, 

 from three to four inches long ; partial ones short; under each divisi- 

 on there is a pair of opposite, large, ovate, acute, obscurely lobed, 

 ciliate bractes, which are connate at the base, forming as it were 

 concave ample involucels. — Flowers ternate, sessile. — Calyx urceo- 

 late, with an entire, obscurely five-toothed margin — Coro//ainfundibu- 

 Xtform; tube thrice as long as the calyx; lacinice of the border lanceo- 

 late; throat woolly. — Stamina nearly as long as the limb. — Ovarium 

 imall. — Stigma linear, two-lobed, under the throat of the coiolla.— 

 Berry ovate, almost black, crowned with the calyx, angular when 

 dried, about five lines long, two- seeded. Seeds flat. 



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