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‘Srec. Cuan. Tree: leaves oblong-lanceolate, smooth above, 
~pubescent on the nerves below: petioles peduncles and calyx pu- 
‘bescent: stipules triangular, cuspidate :. lobes of the corolla spread- 
“Ing: panicles terminal, decussate: ‘flowers subsessile, ‘fascicled, 
small, white. 
‘Burdwan and Midnapore. Flowering from December to Feb- 
ruary, 
GENUS XII. GREENEA. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Sys: 
Deriv. Named in honor of B. D. ‘Greene of Boston, U.S, 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx-tube globose; teeth 4, lanceolate, erect : 
flower-bud clavate: corolla funnel-shaped, pubescent, Jonger than 
the limb of the calyx; tube naked in the mouth: limb.4-cleft : 
segments twisted in ‘stivation, ovate, acute: filaments searcely 
any: anthers attached by the middle of their, back to below the 
mouth of the corolla, linear, 2-cleft at both ends, their apices only 
exserted: ovary crowned with a fleshy disk: style filiform, soon 
projecting beyond the corolla: stigma bipartite: segments narrow- 
‘linear, recurved : capsule crowned with the calycine teeth, 2-celled, 
‘septicidal, bicoceous, the cocci splitting at the apex at the back and 
separating from the calyx: seeds numerous in each cell, minute, 
‘angular. 
(1) G. Wienttana. (W.& A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 404. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1161. 
Srec.’Ctar. Shrub: leaves elliptic, acuminated, much attenn- 
ated at the base, glabrous on both sides except on the midrib and 
merves: stipules large, tongue-shaped: calyx sprinkled with short 
bristly ‘hairs: corymbs terminal, trichotomous, spreading: branches 
irsutely pubescent, partial..ones dichotomous: flowers whitish, 
nearly sessile along one side of the ultimate divisions of the panicle, 
each with a subulate bract. 
This is a doubtful native of the Peninsula, though it is included 
in Wight and Arnott’s Prodromus. 
GENUS XIII. OPHIORRHIZA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Ophis, a serpent, and Rhkiza, a root, alluding to 
its supposed cure in snake-bites. 
Gen. Cuar. Low perénnial- herbaceous or suffrutescent plants : 
leaves petioled, membranaceous, the opposite one often smaller x 
stipules in pairs on each side, very small and deciduous: peduncles 
