403 
Wndladed: style short: ovary 2-celled: petals 4-5, obovate: leaves 
lanceolate, attenuated at the base: ‘flowers axillary, almost sessile, 
‘9-3 in the axils of the opposite leaves. 
Peninsula. Malwan, _ 
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(5) A. corbaira, ( Wight.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. 1. p. 304. 
‘Srxc. Cxar. Leaves oblong, upper ones cordate at the base, 
‘sessile : ‘calyx half-globose: lobes broadly triangular, with con- 
spicuons accessory horns: petals 4, obovate: stamens 4-5, includ- 
ed: capsule inchided: ‘style shert: flowers sessile, 2-3 in the axils 
‘of the leaves. 
. Peninsula. 
(6) A. pEensirnora. ( Roth.) 
Fdent. W.& A. prod. 1. ‘p. 306.—Dec. prod. Til. p. 79.— 
Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 99.: 
Spec. Cuar. Stems ascending, ‘branched, creeping at the base: 
leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, rather cordate at the base: petals 
5, obovate: floral leaves recurved: branches densely’ beset with 
white sessile flowers, 
Peninsula, 
GENUS IV. PEMPHIS. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Pemphis, a blister, which the globular form of the 
‘capsule represents, 
Gen. Guar. Calyx turbinate, persistent, 12-furrowed, with 6 
large erect lobes and 6 smaller lobe-shaped alternating spreadin 
sinuses: petals 6, obovate, inserted into the top of the calyx-tube: 
Stamens inserted on the middle of the calyx, alternately smaller : 
ovary globose, 3-celled: style short: stigma capitate: capsule in+ 
cluded, membranaceous, 6-valved, 3-celled at the -base, opening 
horizontally‘ seeds numerous, attathed to a central 3-toothed. 
placentz. ; 
(1) P. acrputa. (Forst.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 307.—Dec. prod. III. p. 89. 
Syn. P. angustifolia, Roab. fl. Ind. Il. p. 465.—Lythrum Pem~ 
phis, Linn.—Melanium fruticosum, Spr. eh 
Engrav. Lam. ll. t. 408. f. 2.—Rumph. Amb. III. t. 84. 
* Spec. Cuan. Hoary shrub: leaves opposite, quite entire : pedi« 
cels axillary, solitary, with 2 bracts at the base: flowers white. 
Peninsula, 
