284 pentandria monogyniA, Erycxbe. 



Chironia carinata, Herb. Banks. 



Seng- Gim\i. 



A native of Bengal, appears during the end of the cold, and be- 

 ginning of the hot season. 



Stems erect, four-sided, often very ramous, smooth, from three to 

 twelve inches high ; below brachiate, dichotomous, with a flower 

 in the fork. — Leaves opposite, sessile ; the lowermost from oval to 

 oblono-, and three-nerved, the superior linear, and half stem-clasp- 

 ing ; all are smooth, and entire; about an inch long. — Flowers long- 

 peduncled, solitary in the divisions of the branches and two- or 

 three-fold at their terminations. — Calyx nearly as long as the tube 

 of the corol, five-cleft to the base; divisions keeled and acute. — 

 Corol and stamens as hi the genus, the anthers becoming much 

 twisted.— Germ oblong. — Stigma of two large, round plates, each 

 surrounded with a thick, glandular^ pubescent, horse-shoe-like mar- 

 gin. — Capsules oblong, one-celled, two-valved. — Seeds numerous, 

 affixed to two longitudinal receptacles as in Gentian. 



Ohs. I attend to the spirally twisted anthers, otherwise' I should 

 from the stmciure of the capsules and two-lobed stigma have con- 

 sidered it a genliana. The fresh plant is considerably bitter, con- 

 sequently when dr) much more so. In the Banksian Herbarium 

 •I found specimens botii of this and C. carinata under my name. 



ERYCIBE. Roxb. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol one-petalled ; border ten-parted. Germ 

 superior, one-celled, from three to four-seeded, attached to the bot- 

 tom of the cell. Berry one-seeded. 



1, E. paniculata, Roxb. Coromn. 159. 



Erima-Tali, Rheed. Mai vii. 73. t. 39. 



A very large, climbing shrub ; a native of the mountain forests 



the Cheats, and the eastern border of Bengal ; young shoots covered; 



