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PLATE DCV. 



PELIOSANTHES TETA 



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Bengal Peliosanthes, or Teta. 



CLASS VI. ORDER I. 





HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Six Chives- One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx nullus. Corolla 6-partita, subrotata, la- 

 ciniis lato-ovatis obtusis. Nectarium co- 

 roll a triplb breviore incumbente, ore an- 

 gustato integro. Stamina sub ore nectarii 

 affixa. Filamenta subnulla. Stylus eras- 

 sus, brevis, obtuse trigonus, trisulcatus. 

 Stigma sulculus tripartitus in apice styli. 

 Germen inferum, 3-loculare loculis disper- 

 mis. Semina (immature) obovata, erecta, 

 fundo loculamenti affixa. Fructus bacca ? 

 •ubovata, carnosa. 



I Cu p none. Blossom 6-parted, nearly wheel-shaped, 



the divisions broadly egg-shaped, blunt. 

 Nectary three times shorter than the bios- 

 som, leaning inwards, the mouth narrowed 

 and entire. Stamens affixed under the lip 

 of the nectary. Filaments scarcely any. 

 Pointal fleshy, short, bluntly three-sided, 

 with three furrows. Stigma a little three- 

 branched channel on the top of the pointal. 

 Germ below, of three cells which are two- 

 seeded. Seeds (while young) inversely eo-g- 

 shaped, erect, and affixed to the bottom of 

 the cells. Fruit a berry ? nearly oval, fleshy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A segment of the flower magnified. 



2. Seed-bud and pointal magnified, with the seeds exposed 



3. Seed-bud cut transversely, magnified. 



ESL*!? r/ iOU$ ^ S ° ? t , inct / rom ever ? S enus hitherto described, was introduced from the East 

 Ind.es, at the same tune w,th the Gaertnera hgured incur last number, by the late Lady Amel a 

 Hume The roots are fibrous and perenmal, as are also the leaves, which rise from {£ -root upon 



footstalks embracing one another nr th« Ksca anA am ~f „ 1™„ i^TZ _i .7 " lll r rooc u P on 



ri 8 ing to from one ,o two tcet in heigh,, with membranaceous &S£^SZS£££"3 

 were four ,n number m the yeomen which we have figured. The blooms grow „ a kind of ra- 

 ceme formed ot htlle bundle, or tufa of two to four flowers each- the fsLr,ll,. , c , 

 .ength, wiih a joint near the top, and are a„ended by incurved bra*"; ,'he , £? he fewer!*. Sac 



bc,ay wi,h the Jd, in paira a, ,„ I germ. Bo* S, Z^JT^Z^V^Z 



known in India by .bat name, we have retained it for Z'^rT' "" • "' be ', ™ k a ^ !lrs to be 

 in conformity to tie Jannean UalTtfwX. I^StcJZVTL' ifiX P f* g T S ' 



[gon£ in the East 



possession 



or T; .a., «, at iroar swifts-: * -^-=s 



which they are natives. 



from Prince of Wales's Island, of 



informs us, that he found five or six species growing mta allv mXTT^ " ' "f T'T 



he had not the good fortune to bring them alfve to EnXS F* ment.oned, although 



Linnaeus was of opinion, that there were not above ten thnn«nil r,Ur, t . •„ ♦, i j u . , n 



and-twenty thousand have already been described Ja \ tho " sand P ants t in , , the W0lld i but above five- 

 to the number ! 7 described, and ten thousand probably yet remain to be added 





