#44 FENTANDRIA M6N0GYNIA. ^hioTrhlZU. 



sub-rotund, faux closed with white hairs, which appear to form five 

 tufts. Stamina five incluse ; filaments very short; anthers yellow, 

 sagittate, acute, conniving over the stigma. Ovary furrowed on 

 both sides, two-celled, tetrasporous, surrounded by an obscurely 

 five-lobed nectai ial ring. Styles two united together. Stigma peltate, 

 capitate, glutinous, papiilous. Berry globose, smooth, containing 

 two nuts, which are compressed, rugose, gibbous below &nd taper- 

 ing towards the top, sub-unilocular with an imperfect dissepiment; 

 generally one-seeded. Seed compressed. 



Obs. This species appears to have considerable resemblance to 

 Kauwoljia nitida, but is sufficiently distinguished by its inflores- 

 cence. The wood of this tree is very light, and employed by the Su- 

 Matrans for the scabbards of their sword* and krises. W. Jack $ 

 loc. cit — N. W„ 



OPHIORRHIZA, Schrcb. gen. N. 273. 



Calyx five-toothed. Coroi funnel-shaped. Germ inferior, two- 

 celled, cells many-seeded, attachment to a sub-inferior, free, clavate 

 receptacle. Stigma biiid. Capsule two lobed, two-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, angular. 



3. O. Mungos, Willd. i. 826. 



Leaves opposite, elliptic, smooth. Corymbs terminal. 



Radix Mungo, K&mpf. Amoen. 573 et 577. 



Leaves opposite, petio]ed, oblong, entire, pointed, in texture re- 

 markably thin, leDgth from four to six inches. — Petioles short, 

 villous. — Stipules, a slight connecting membrane. — Corymbs termi- 

 nal, many-flowered.— Calyx superior, one-leaved, five-toothed, per- 

 manent.— Corol one*petalled, funnel-shaped; tube short; border 

 five-parted, divisions oblong, hairy on the inside, pointed. — Nectary 

 a thick, two.lipped, fleshy body crowning the germ between the base 

 of the stamens and style,— Filaments five, very short, inserted oa 



