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Srrc. Cuan. Stems herbaceous, diffuse, procumbent, angled, 
hairy: leaves 5-lobed, slightly hairy above, villous beneath : lobea 
cuneate-ovate, bluntly toothed : stipules lanceolate, acuminate, | 
ciliated; peduncles much longer than the leaves, 2-flowered: se-' 
pals 3-nerved, with a longish mucro: petals entire, obovate, nearly 
twice as long as the calyx: stamens subulate, broad at the base, 
distinct, in a double series; pistil villous; carpels hairy; flowers 
yellow. 
Hills of the Peninsula. 
GENUS I. MONSONIA. 
Polyadelphia Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. In honor of Lady Anne Monson, who took many cue 
rious plants to England from India. 
Gen. Cuar. Sepals 5, equal, with an armed mucro at the apex 
of each: petals equal, twice the size of the calyx: stamens 15, 
arranged in five bundles, containing 3 anthers each. 
(1) M. Senzcatensis.. (Guill. and Perr.) 
Ident. Guill. and Perr, tent, fl. Senegamb. I. p. 131,—Dalz, 
Bomb. flor. p. 41. 
Syn. Erodium chumbulense, Mun.—M. Lawiana, Stocks. 
- Engrav, Wight’s Icon. t. 1074, 
Spre. Cuar. Annual; leaves ovate-cordate, acute or lanceo< 
late, remotely toothed, pubescent and villous, long-petioled : stipules 
villous; peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, with 2 bracteas at the base : 
corolla and calyx about equal: fruit often longer than the whole 
plant: flowers pink. : 
Dry pastures in the Deccan. Chumbul, near Agra, 
ORDER XXXVIII. LINACEZ. 
Annual or perennial plants, with entire, alternate, exstipulate 
leaves, occasionally biglandular at the base: sbpals 4-5, per. 
sistent, imbricated: petals hypogynous, 4-5, unguwiculate, twist- 
ed in sestivation; stamens hypogynous, distinct, equal’ in num- 
ber to the petals, and alternate with them, united at the base 
into an annular disk, from which arise small teeth or abortive 
stamens: anthers ovate, erect: ovary with as many cells ag 
stamens: styles 3+5: stigmas capitate: capsule generally sur. 
mounted with-the hard base of the styles, many-celled; each. 
