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Srec. Cuan. Height half a foot: stem simple, pubescent = 
leaves linear, attenuated at both ends, roughish, remotely toothed ;. 
stipules ciliated : capsule 6-seeded : flowers: deep: orange-red. 
Hills near Belgaum- 
GENUS III. ALSODEIA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Séx: Syst: 
Deriv. From Alsodes, leafy, alluding to the plant being thickly 
set with leaves. 
Gen. Cuan. Shrubs or trees: leaves often alternate, stipulate : 
flowers racemose: racemes axillary and terminal : pedicels bracteate,, 
jointed: sepals 5, three exterior, two interior: petals longer than 
the calyx, twisted in zestivation : stamens alternate with the petals : 
filaments dilated into ligule and bearing the anthers at the base of 
each ligula: lobes of the anthers often produced at the apex into 
bristly appendages: style clavate: capsule turbinate, obtusely 5- 
cornered: seeds 1-2 at each valve. 
A. Roxsurenu. (Wall. ) 
Ident. Roxb, fl. Ind. I. p. 648.—Ed. Car. IT. p. 446. 
Syn. Vareca heteroclita, Roxb,—Pentaloba Roxburghii, Wall. 
Cat. : 
Spec. Cuar. Small shrub: leaves alternate, sessile, broad-lan- 
ceolate, crenate, with a hollow gland in the axil of each vein on the 
under side: sepals 5, unequal, woolly: petals lanceolate, revolute 
above: filaments projecting beyond the bell-shaped part of the co- 
rolla,‘and enlarged with bearded appendages at the base: flowers 
crowded, sessile, small, white. 
Lucknow, flowering in October. 
ORDER XIV. DROSERACEZ. 
Herbaceous plants, often covered with glandular hairg: leaves 
alternate, with stipulary fringes: peduncles circinate when 
young: sepals 5, equal, imbricated in estivation: petals 5, hy- 
‘pogynous: stamens hypogynous, distinct, either equal to and 
alternate with the petals, or twice the number: anthers 2-cell- 
ed, bursting lengthwise: ovary single: styles 3-5, distinct or 
slightly cohering at the base, 2-cleft, or branched: capsule 3-5 
valved with the placente either in the middle or at.the base: 
seeds with or without an aril: embryo erect, albuminous, 
