Nonatelia. pentandrta monogynia, 187 



XONATELIA. Aull 



Calyx short, five-tooihed. Corolla infundibulifovm, with a five- 

 parted, spreading border. Stamina attached to the middle of the 

 tube, mostly included. Berry underneath, globular, five-celled, five- 



bt-tded. Seeds hard. 



J. N.r hispida, Wall. 



Leaves oblong, acuminate, with oblique base, hairy underneath. 

 Flowers sessile, axillary, sub-verticillate, with hispid bractes. 



Native of -StUiet from whence I received specimens in 1815. 

 Time of flowering the hot season. 



A shrub with round, smooth, pallid branches, a little comnressed at 

 the insertion of the petiols. — Leaves opposite, spreading, sub-sessile, 

 longer than iheir interstices, oblong, finely acuminate, entire, rather 

 broader toward the outer end, base unequal, the one side rounded-sub- 

 reluse, the other narrow and acute, from four to six inches long, cori- 

 aceous, smooth above, roughish underneath, which is occasioned by 

 short scattered hairs ; with sub-opposite elevated nerves, and trans- 

 versely reticulate veins; while young thickly covered with bristly articu- 

 late hairs, as are also the stipules and bractes. — Petiols exceedingly 

 short, hairy, flaltish above. — Stipules interpetiolary, adpressed, linear- 

 lunceolate, with a broadish base, three or four lines long, hispid. — 

 Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded, sub-verticillate, supported by an 

 involucrum consisting of numerous linear-lanceolate, erect, acute, his- 

 pid, ciliate, three-nerved bractes, which are nearly as long as the co- 

 rols. — Calyx very small, ovate, five-cleft, hairy ; lacinia lanceolate, 

 acuminate, erect, persistent. — Corolla infundibuliform, white, hispid ; 

 tube cylindric, slender, nearly an inch long, a little widening at the 

 upper end ; limb spreading, deeply divided into five linear-oblong, 

 bluntish, hairy segments a little shorter than the tube ; throat pervious, 

 villous. — Stamina included \ filaments capillary, inserted above the 

 middle of the tube ; anthers erect, two-celled, hairy under the throat. 

 — Oranumiuudemeath, ovate, small, slightly hairy, five-celled, five- 



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