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GENUS XXI.. EPITHINIA, 
TFetrandria Monogynila. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Epi, upon, and Thin, the sea-shore. The shrub 
grows among mangroves on the sea-coast. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx-tube somewhat cylindrical; limb cup-shap- 
ed, inconspicuously 4-toothed: corolla tubular, with a 4- partite 
limb: tube hairy inside: segments recurved: astivation imbricated 
and slightly twisted: ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell: 
stamens exserted, with pointed linear anthers: style exserted : stigs 
ma 2-eleft; divisions linear, spreading: drupe oblong-clavate, 8+ 
furrowed, containing two 1-celled hard long nuts: seeds 2 in each 
cell, placed one above the other. ' 
(1) E. Matayana. (Jack.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 424.—Hook, Bot. Mise. II. p. 67, 
—Dee. prod. IV. p. 477. 
Spec. Cuar. Glabrous shrub, exuding gum from the extremities 
of the young shoots; stipules connate, sheathing, truncated: leaves 
abovate, obtuse, somewhat fleshy: cymes somewhat above the axils 
on short horizontal peduncles, bifid, shorter than the petiole ; flowers 
white. 
Mangrove swamps in the Peninsula. 
GENUS XXII. PCEDERIA,. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Derie. From Peederos, opal, in allusion to the transparent ber- 
ries. 2 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx-tube ovate: limb 5-toothed, persistent: 
corolla funnel-shaped, hirsute inside, 5-lobed, with a folded cestiva- 
tion: stamens ‘sometimes abortive: anthers oblong, almost sessile 
on the middle of the tube: style not exserted : stigma 2-cleft : berry 
ovate-globose, 2-celled, 2-seeded : albumen fleshy. 
(1) P. vara. (Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 424.—Dee. prod. IV. p. 471.—— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 683. 
 Sya, gApocynum fetidum, Burm. Ind. p. 71. 
Esgrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 160. 
Spzc. Cuan. Climbing shrub’: leaves oblong or lanceolate, eor- 
date at the base,-glabrous : stipules solitary on each side: panicles 
