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GENUS I. HYMENODYCTION. 
Pentandria Wenegynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Hymen, 2 membrane, and Dyction, anet. The 
seeds are girded by a netted membrane. 
‘Gen. Cuar. Trees: leaves petioled ; stipules deciduous, glan- 
‘dularly serrated : “flowers small, prbescent, crowded and fascicled in 
a terminal panicle which is composed of opposite, simple or stightly- 
branched: peduncled racenies, the lower one or two pairs of whieb'are 
subtended by a pair of opposite long-petioled convex dry floral 
leaves: calyx-tulle'ovate; limb 5-toothed: corolla infundibuliform, 
the limb 5-lobed: stamens very short: filaments: inserted under. the 
throat’ of the corolla: anthers slightly protruded: style filiform, 
much protruded : ‘stigma clavately capitate: capsule 2-celled, 2- 
-walved, loculicidal: seeds flat, imbricated, surrotinded “by a wing 
which is 2-cleft at the base: embryo erect in fleshy albumen. ‘ 
(1) H. excersum. (Wail.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 392.—Roxb. ff. ‘Ihd. (Ed. Wall.) 
II. p. 149.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 358. 
Syn. Cinchona excelsa, Roxb. ft. Ind. I. p. 529. 
‘Enigrav. Roxb. Cor. II. t. 106. 
Srzc. Cuan. Leaves from oblong to roundish-ovate, pubescent : 
stipules cordate: floral leaves oblong, ‘coloured, buflate: panicles 
terminal and axillary: anthers nearly sessile-in the mouth of ‘the 
corolla: flowers small, greenish. 
Circars. Columala. ‘Commén on the Western ghauts. ~Flower- 
ing in the rainy season. 
(2) H. osovatum. CWait’y 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 392.—Roxb. fl. Ind. (Ed. Wall.) 
Il. p. 153.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 358, 
fingraw. Wight’s Icon. t. 1159. 
Srec. Cuan. Leaves obovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, 
-glabrots, finely reticulated ‘with colouréd: veins beneath, aggregated 
towards the ends of the branches: stipules ovate, °glanduliferous' on 
‘the margins, very deciduous : racemes axilldry, spicate, with one dr 
two short branches: tube of the corolla cinttactéd ; limb éAmpahu- 
late, 5-cleft: stamens inserted on the throat: filaments much longér 
than the anthers: flowers greenish. 
In dry and stony soils about Matecarry, near Coimbatore, flowers 
ing in May and June. 
