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Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous plants, shrubs or small trees: calyx 
§-cleft: involucel 3-leaved, deciduous: petals 5, attached by claws 
to the staminal column: filaments united into an entire or 5-cleft 
tube: ovary oblique, 1-celled: ovules 2: style 1, slightly lateral : 
capsule consisting of one coccus, l-seeded, 2-valved.. ~ 
(1). W. Invica, (Linn. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p-67.—Dee. prod. I. p. 493. 
Syn, W.,Americana, Linn. Dee. prod, I. p. 492. —W. elliptiea, 
and W. microphylla, Cav. Dec. prod. I. p. 493. 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 68.—Jacq, Icon. Rar. I. t. 180.—Pluk. 
t. 150. f. 5. 
Spec. Cuag. Herbaceous plant: leaves ovate or laneeolate« 
oblong, serrated, more or less softly tomentose on both sides: heads 
of flowers terminal or axillary, sessile or pedunculated, sometimes 
elongated into an almost leafless, axillary spike: flowers small, 
lemon-coloured. 
Peninsula, Bengal. South Concans. Flowering in the cold 
season. ; : - 
GENUS VI. PENTAPETES. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Pente, five, alluding to the 5-celled fruit. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-partite, surrounded by a 3-leaved, one- 
sided involucel: petals 5, deciduous: stamens 20, five of which are 
sterile and strap-shaped, and 15 fertile, arranged in threes between 
each of the sterile ones: style 5-furrowed, 5-pointed: capsule 5- 
celled, 5-valved, many-seeded: seeds not winged. 
P: Puanicea. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 67.—Dee. prod, I. p. 498.—Roxk, 
fl, Ind. IIT. p. 157. < 
‘Syn. P. angustifolia, Blume.—Dombeya Pheenicét, Cav. 
_ Engrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 100, f. 1.—Rheede Mal. X..t. 1s 
and 56.—Bot. Reg. VII. p. 525. ; 
Srrc. Cuar. Annual: leaves linear-lanceolate, hostate, serrate 
ed: peduncles 1—2-flowered, axillary, drooping, red. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS VII. MELHANIA. 
Monadelphia Pentandria. Sex: Syst; 
Deriv. From Mount Melhan, in Arabia Felix, the habitat of 
one of the species, 
