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Srrc. Cuar. Climbing shrub: hairy, leaves unequally pinnate : 
leaflets 4-8 pair, oblong, entire: panicles terminal and axillary. 
Chittagong, flowering in March. 
(2) C. monavetrHa. (Rogb.) 
Ident. Dee. prod. Il. p. 87.—Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 34. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves unequally pinnated, glabrous: leaflets 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shining. 
Silhet, 
ORDER XLII. ZYGOPHYLLACEZ. 
Herbaceous plants, shrubs or trees: leaves opposite, stipuled, 
seldom simple: calyx 4-5-cleft: petals unguiculate: alternate 
with the sepals: stamens hypogynous: filaments distinct, usual- 
ly rising from the back of a scale: anthers 2-celled, opening 
lengthwise : ovary simple, more or less 4~-5-furrowed, 4-5- 
celled: ovules twin or more, pendulous: style simple, often 
furrowed: stigma simple or lobed: capsule 4~5-angled or wing- 
ed, 4-5-valved: albumen between fleshy and horny: embryo, 
green, 
GENUS I. TRIBULUS. 
Decandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
eae From Treis, three, and Bolos, a point, in allusion to the 
prickly pointed fruit. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous plants, trailing: leaves opposite, ab- 
ruptly pinnate, bistipulate: peduncles 1-flowered, axillary : calyx 
deeply 5-partite; petals longer than the calyx: filaments naked, 
those opposite the sepals with an external gland at the base: ovary 
hairy, 5-celled, with 3-4 pendulous avaas in each cell: style 
short, pr scarcely any: stigma 5-ribbed : fruit 5-coccous, cocci at 
length separating, externally tubercled or prickly, with 2-4 super- 
posed l-seeded cells: seeds without albumen. 
(1) T. tanvernosus. (Linn.) 
ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 145.—Dec. prod. FE. p. 704. 
Roxb. fi. Ind. II. p. 401. 
H¥ngray. Burm. Zeyl, t. 106, f. 1.—Wight’s Icon. T. t. 98, 
