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opening with valves : placentae central, distjact, seeds numer- 

 ous, peltate; embryo included within a fleshy albumen, the 

 radicle indeterminate or across the hilum. 



GENUS I. PRIMUIA, 



Pentandrla aionosyiila. Sex: Syii.- 



Deriv. From Primus, first, because of tije early appearance of 

 the flowers. 



Gen. Chak. Herbs : leaves usually Radical : scape simple : 

 flowers umbellate, involucrate, rarely verticelled : calyx subcampa- 

 nulate or tubulose, more or less deeply S-toothed or even 5fclef( : 

 corolla cup-shaped or funnel-shaped, limb 5-cleft, lobes usually 

 emargioate, throat dilated at the limb, tube terete, equalling or ex.. 

 ceeding the calyx : stamens included : filaments very short : anthers 

 often acuminated : ovary globose or ovate-globose : ovules numer- 

 ous peltately ^mphitropous : capsules ovate, 5-valved, valves entire 

 PI' 2-cleft, only dehiscing at the apex : seeds minute, numerous, 



(1) P. PROllFBRA. (Wall.) '■; 



Ident. , "Wall, in As. Res. ] 3. p. 372. in Boxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 

 18.-f-Dec. prod. VIII. p. 34. 



Spec C?iar. Quite glabrous, not farinaceous : lower leaves 

 rosulate, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, serrated, contracted into the 

 petiole : scape long : flowers verticelled : leaflets of the involucre 

 in the lower verricels somewhat of the same form as the leaves, in 

 the upper ones linear-subulate : segments of the calyi; lanceolate- 

 acuminate, 2-3 times shorter than the tubes : corolla cup-shaped, 

 lobes obcordate, crenulate, tube 10-striated : throat contracted an4 

 nuarked with five minute 2-lohed tubercles. 



Silhet mountains, flowering from February to April. 



GENUS n. MICROPYXIS. 

 Pentaiidrla MonogTiila. Sta: Syrti 



Deriv. IPiom Micros, small, and Pyxis, a capsule. 



Gen. Char, Calyx 5-parted : corolla funnel-shaped, usually 

 shorter than the calyx, persistent even to the ripening of the cap- 

 sule, tube short, limb 5-parted, lobes narrow, acute, connivent after 

 flowering: stamens equal : filaments slightly bearded, dilated at the 

 base and combining into a connivent tube covering the ovary and 

 inserted at the throat of the tube :. anthers aflixed at the base, erect, 

 introrse : capsule globose, cut circularly round the sidesi membiV> 

 R8C90US ; seeds numerous, very small, 



