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GENUS VII. HYPTIANTHERA, 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
_. Deriv, From Hyptios, laid back, and Aantheros, in allusion to 
the position of the anthers. 
: Gen. Crar. Calyx-tube obovate: limb deeply 5-cleft : segments 
oblong, acuminated : corolla rotate: tube very short, hairy inside: 
limb 5-partite, spreading, twisted in estivation: anthers oblong, 
large, attached by the back above the middle to the top of the tube 
of the corolla, free at the base and apex: ovary crowned with a 
thick fleshy disk, 2-celled, with about 6 suspended ovules in each 
cell: style very short, perforating the disk: stigma hirsute, large, 
‘oblong, 2-partite : segments erect, always close together: berry 
Blobose, 2-celled, with a few seeds imbricated in two rows in each 
cell, : 
(1) H. sraicra. (W. & A) 
Fdent. W.& A. prod. I..p. 399, 
Syn. Randia stricta, Roxb. A. Ind. T. p. 526.—Dee. prod. VI. 
p- 386.—Macréenemmum strictum, Roem. and Schult, Syst. V. p. 6. 
~—Rondeletia stricta, Rath. : 
Srec. Cuar. Unarmed shrub: Jeaves ‘short-petioled,. oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated, cuneate at the base: stipules solitary on 
each side, triangular: flawers bracteated, small, collected into small 
dense globose sessile fascicles in the’ axils of the leaves, white: fruit 
‘about the size of a pea. 
‘Mountains north of Bengal. Peninsula. Flowering in the cold. 
‘season, 
GENUS IX. GRIFFITHIA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, Named after Dr. Griffith of the Madras Medical Estab- 
lishment. Bag ee 
Gen. Cur. Calyx-fube obovate ; limb campanulate, 5- toothed, 
deciduous: corolla funnel-shaped, hairy in the throat; limb spread~ 
ing, 5-partite; segments narrow-oblong, acute, slightly twisted in 
<estivation : anthers long, linear, acuminated, exserted, attached by 
their back a little above their base to the mouth of the eorolla-tube : 
ovary crowned with a fleshy disk, 2-celled, with several ovules in 
each cell : style filiform, the length of the tube of the corolla: stigma 
‘entire, ‘long, fusiform, striated, exsertéed: berry globose, marked on 
‘the apex with a ciroular scar where the limb of the calyx bas fallen 
“off, '2-celled, with 8-10 seeds in’each cell: seeds angled, surrounded 
with mucilage : albumen cartilaginous, 
