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Gen. Char. Herbs : calyx adherent to the base of the ovary or 

 altogether free, 5-partite, the leaflets subserrate : corolla shortly 

 campanulate, 4-5-lobed! style erect: stigma clavate, 4-5-lobed,. 

 lobes afterwards revolute : ovary 4-5-celled, cells opposite the 

 sepals, ovules many, affixed in many rows to thick axillary placen- 

 tae: fruit baccate, irregularly broken : seeds numerous, subangled, 

 compressed: testa smooth, coriaceous: embryo broadly, clavate, 

 cotyledons and radicle short. 



(1) C. PARVIFLORUM. (It. F.^T.) 



Ident. H. F. & T. in Jour. Proe; Linn, Soc. TE p. 18. 



Syn. Godonopsis parviflora. Wall. Cat. No, 1300. — Dec, prodi 

 VII. p, 4^3. — Gampanumaea Celebica, Blume Bijdr. p. 727. — Dee. 

 I. c. ' 



Spec Char. Herbaceous,, annual,, erect,, dichotomously branch- 

 ed : leaves opposite, ovate- lanceolate, long-acuminate, serrated,, 

 short-petioled, glaucous below: sepals free-: flowers tetramerous,. 

 arranged in trichotomous cymes, small, white : peduncles curved^, 

 nodding : berry globose, 4-celled. 



Assam. Khasia mountains at 2 — 4000 feet. Flowering in Aa^ 

 gust and September.. 



GENUS V. WAHLENBERGIA. 

 Pentandria MOnosynla.^ Sae: Sj/H: 



Deriv. Named after George Wahlenberg, a celebrated German.* 

 Botanical author. 



Gen. Char. Herbs, rarely shrubs with alternate, rarely oppo- 

 site, leaves : calyx 3-5-clefl; : corolla 3-5-lobed, rarely divided to 

 the middle : stamens 3-5, free, filaments broader at the base i style 

 hairy, especially above : stigmas 2-.5 : ovary adherent : capsule 2— 

 5-celled, opening by valves at the apex. 



(1) W. AaRESTis. {Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VII. p. 434.— H. F. &. T. in Jour. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. II. p. 21. 



Syn. W. dehiscens, Dec. I. c. — ^W. Indica, Dec. I. c. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 11 7& and 1176.— Spi«il. II. t. 123 

 and 124. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, branched from the base, hairy below ; 

 lower leaves approximated, narrow-linear, nearly entire, undulated, 

 oi} the margin : pedu'ikcles usually diohotomous, with very short 

 bracts : tube of the calyx glabrous, obovoid, shorter than the erect 



