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FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Ophiorihiza. 



2. O. iHlosa, R. 



Suffructico c e, erect, villous. Leaves from ovate-oblong to lan- 

 Ceolar. Corymbs terminal, long-peduncled, villous. 



A native of shaded, moist places amongst the hills of Chittagong; 

 where it blossoms in May, and the seed ripens in three or four 

 months. 



Stems a few inches high, simple, sub-ligneous, while young hairy. 



— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, veins many, large, 

 parallel, and hairy ; from three to four inches long, and one or two 

 bvovd- — Si ipules emit'ovm, villous. — Corymbs terminal, solitary, rather 

 leng-peduncled, sub-globular, rough, with ferruginous pubescence, 

 composed of a few recurved, short, villous branches, with the numer- 

 ous, vthite, sub-sessile flowers 'on the upper, or convex side thereof. 



— Calyx hairy, five-toothed. — Carol funnel-shaped. Tube the 

 length of the five segments, its mouth shut with hairs, — Fila- 

 ments live, inserted on the bottom of the tube of the corol. An- 

 thers linear, erect. — Nectary a fleshy bilabiate body on the top of 

 the germ embracing the base of the style, as in O. fi&ungos. Germ 

 tin binate, inferior, two-ceiled, with numerous ovula in each, attach- 

 ed to two large, free receptacles which are attached to the base of 

 the partition. Style the length of the tube of the corol. — Stigma 

 large, two-lobed, villous. — Capsule two-lobed, transverse, breadth 

 twice the height, two-celled, opening round the apex. — Seeds, 5vC« 

 as in O. Mangos, Gdert. carp, h 264. t. 55. 



Additional species by N. JV, 



3. O. tomentosa, IF- Jack. Mss. 



The whole p'ant densely and very softly villous. Stem erect, 

 bfauchv. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, finely acuminate, and loiigish 

 peliols, hoary underneath. 



A native of Piuang and Sumatra, v\here it was first discovered by 

 the late Mr. Jack. I have found it in abundance on the Hills' of the 

 former is'and in flower and seed from the month of August to Novem- 

 ber. 



