Ophiorrhiza. PENTAKOBIA monogyma. 547 



" Slpm herbaceous, erect, branched, round, villous, reddish, 

 about a toot in height. — Leaves opposite} peliolate, lanceolate, acute 

 at b')Lh ends, very entire, four tu live inches long, lomentose and 

 dark-green above, villous and hoary underneath, with reddish nerves. 

 — Stipules subulate. — Petiol villous, flat above, from half an inch 

 to an inch long. — Corymbs terminal, peduncled, with unilateral sub- 

 sessile fioweis. — Vtd uncles tomentose. — Calyx small, tomenlose, 

 iive-toothed. — Corolla white, longer than die calyx. — Stamina' en- 

 closed ; anthers linear. — Sty e elevated above the throat; stigma di- 

 vided in two linear, thick lobes. — Nectary a. bilabiate glandular body 

 crowning the ovary. — Capsule transversely compressed, obcordate, 

 two-celled, many-seeded." — -W-. Jack's Mss. 



Obi. The above-mentioned variety of Ophjiorrhiza Mungos is ex- 

 treuiely like this plant, and may perhaps belong to it as a smooth 

 variety.— IS. W. 



4. O. heterophylla, W. Jack, in Mai. Miscell. ii. vii. 85. 



" Leaves opposite, sub-rotund-ovate, one in each pair much 

 smaller than the other. 



Found in the interior of Sumatra. 



This species is readily distinguished by the peculiarity of one of 

 the opposite leaves being always dwarf or abortive, the other is 

 .sub-rotuud-ovate, with a bluntidi acumen, smooth, pale, and whit- 

 ish beneath. The stem is erect and tomeutose. Flozvers in a small 

 terminal cyme. Capsule compressed, obcordate." — W. Jack, I. cit. 

 — N. W. 



5. O. rugosa, Wall. 



\ dlous, creeping at the base, ramous. Leaves lanceolate, shin- 

 ing, rugose, and scabrous above. Corymb equalling the uppermost 

 pair of leaves in length. 



I have found it in forests on Shjvapoor and other high mounJ 

 tains near the valley of Nipal, flowering and produciug fruit during 

 the rains, 



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