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dense ring of moniliform hairs on the inside at the base of the cam- 
panulate portion, 4-lobed: filaments exserted, decurrent from  be- 
tween the lobes of the corolla to the ring of hairs: anthers oblong’: 
ovary crowned with a fleshy disk: style perforating the disk, the 
length of the corolla-tube : stigma obtuse, divided by a slight furrow 
with 2 lobes: fruit oblong, fleshy, when dry somewhat corky, com- 
pressed, acutely 4-angled with amaller intermediate ribs on the sides, 
crowned with the culycine-segments, 2-celled: seeds solitary in-each 
cell, one of them ustially abortive, oblong: albumen hard: embryo 
erect. am 
: ’ 
(1) H. maritima. (Linn. ) 
Ident. Linn. f. suppl. p, 126.—W. & A. prod. I. p. 441.— 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 576.—Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 373. 
. Syn. Sarissus anceps, Gaertn. ‘ 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. ILI. t. 233.—Wight's Icon. t. 760.— 
Gaertn. fr. I. p. 118. t. 25, 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous, glabrous, with long creeping terete 
stems, throwing out leafy branches: leaves opposite, obovate-ob- 
long, sharp, fleshy: stipules combined with the petioles into short 
truncated entire or toothed sheaths: flowers axillary, sessile, solitary 
or in pairs, pale rose-coloured. 
Sand-hills along the sea-coast of Coromandel and Malabar. 
Flowering all the year. 
GENUS XXXIV. SAPROSMA. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Syt: 
Deriv. From Sapros, rancid, and Osme, smell. The wood and 
berries are very fetid. 
Gen. Cuan. Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves: flowers 
crowded, rarely axillary, sessile : calyx-tube ovate: limb 4-toothed : 
limb of the corolla 4-cleft: throat hairy: stamens inserted in the 
mouth of the corolla: filaments short: stigma 2-cleft: berry oval, 
smooth, l-seeded, crowned by the calyx: embryo erect, in fleshy 
albumen. J 
(1) S. Inpicum. (Dalz.) 
‘Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 112.—Hook. Jour, Bot. EYE. p. 37. 
‘Syn. Dysidodendron glomeratum, Garda. in Cale. Jour. Nat. 
Hist. VU. p. 3. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: branches round, dichotomous, glabrous : 
leaves sessile, obovate-elliptic, attenuated at the base: -margins re« 
curved: stipules solitary between the petioles and sheathing the 
stem: flowers few, terminal, fascicled, on very short pedicels : ber= 
riés avoid, smooth, blue, very fetid, 1-2-seeded. 
Chorla Ghaut. 
