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anthers free: berries size of a small cherry, smooth and black when 
ripe: flowers small, white. 
Silhet and Lower Bengal, flowering in the rainy season. 
(6) Li nirta. (Banks:) 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. I; p. 656. 
Spec. Cxar. Shrub: leaves pinnate or bipinnate: leaffets ans 
eeolate, serrated, hairy: stems flexuous; jointed: cymes terminal, 
8-parted: anthers connected: berry black, 6-seeded; when dry 
6-lobed: flowers small, greenish. 
Lower parts of Bengal, flowering in the rainy season. 
ORDER XXXVII. GERANIACEZ. 
Herbaceous plants or shrubs with opposite or alternate leaves, 
in the latter case opposite the peduncles: sepals 5, persistent; 
more or less unequal: one sometimes spurred at the base, im- 
bricated in xestivation: petals 5, unguiculate, twisted in sesti- 
vation, equal or unequal, hypogynous or perigyhous: stamens 
usually monadelphous at the base; hypogynous, twice or three 
times as many as the petals: ovary 5-celled, with 2 pendulous 
ovules in each cell: styles 5, eohering round the disk: fruit 
composed of five 1-celled, indehiscent carpels, cohering round a 
long; beaked disk, each terminated by the style which after 
maturity curls back from the base to the apex carrying the pe- 
ticarp along with it: seeds solitary: albumen none: embryo 
curved, 
GENUS J.. GERANTUM. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Geranos, a crane, alluding to the long beak which 
terminates the carpels. 
Gen. Cuar. Sepals 5, equal: stamens all fertile, alterhate ones 
larger: awns of the carpels glabrous inside, at length separating 
elastically from the base to the apex; and becoming circinately 
tevolute, 
QQ) G.arrine. (W.& 4) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 138. 
Engrav. Wight’s Tl, I. t. 59. 
