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Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-parted: petals 5, 2-cleft: capsule 1-cell- 
ed, opening at the apex by six valves, many-seeded, 
(1) S.mupia. (Smith.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 42.—Dec. prod, I. p. 396. 
Syn. S. monogyna, Don. 
Engrav. Engl. Bot. VIII. t. 537.—Wight’s Ie. t. 947. 
Srrc. Cuar. Stems procumbent, with an alternate line of hairs 
on one side: lower leaves ovate: upper ones lanceolate: petals 
deeply divided: capsules deeply divided: flowers small, white. 
Neilgherries, flowering in the cold season. 
GENUS IV. CERASTIUM. 
Deeandria Tetragynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Keras, a horn, the capsules resembling the horns 
of an ox. 
Gen. Cuar. Sepals 5: petals 5, 2-cleft: styles 5: capsule 1- 
celled, cylindrical, or globose, bursting at the apex with 10, rarely 
5 teeth, 
(1) OC. Inpicum. (W. & A,) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 48. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. t. 26. 
Srrc. Cuar. Stems, leaves and calyx covered with viscid pu- 
bescence: stems angled: leaves ovate or oblong, lanceolate: flow- 
ers much shorter than the pedicels, in a somewhat dichotomous 
panicle: petals scarcely longer than the sepals which are oblong- 
acute: capsules ovoid: teeth 10, rolled backwards, their margins 
flat: flowers small, white. 
Peninsula. 
(2) C. voreatum. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 43.—Deec. prod. I. p. 415. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 948.—Engl. Bot. XI. t. 789. 
Spzc. Cuan. Annual, hairy, nearly erect, upper parts viscid: 
leaves ovate, obtuse: bracts herbaceous: flowers longer than the 
pedicels in a somewhat capitate panicle: petals as long as the ob- 
long calyx: capsule cylindrical, curved upwards: teeth 10, straight, 
their margins rolled backwards: flowers small, white, 
Peninsula, flowering in February and March. 
(3) C. conpirotrum. (Roxb.) 
Ident, Roxb. fl, Ind, II. p. 458, 
