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GENUS XX. ICHNOCARPUS. 

 Pentantlria Slonogynla. Sex]: Syst: 



Deriv. From Ichnos, a vestige, and Karpos, a fruit ; alluding to 

 the slender follicles. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft : corolla salver-shaped : segments 

 of the limb dimidiate, twisted, hairy :, throat and tube without any 

 scales : stamens inclosed : anthers sagittate, free from the stigma : 

 ovaries twin : style filiform : stigma ovate-acute : hypogynous 

 threads 5, capitate, alternating with the stamens : follicles slender. 



(1) I. FRUTESCENS. (R. Br.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 435.— R. Br. in H. Kew. Vol, 11. 

 p. 69. 



Syn. Apocynum frutescens, Linn. — Echites frutescens, Roxb. 

 flor. Ind. M.p. 12. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 430. — Burm. Zeyl. t. 12. f. 1. 



Spec. Char. Climbing shrub : leaves opposite, small, elliptic- 

 acute at the ends, hairy beneath : cymes terminal, many-flowered, 

 covered with reddish tomentum : flowers very small, white : follicles 

 6 inches long. 



Common in the Warree country, climbing over trees. Southern 

 Mahratta country. Dharwar. Bengal. Silhet. Flowering ia 

 the rainy season. 



GENUS XXI. POTTSIA. 



Pentandria iHonosynla- Sexi Systi 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted : corolla salver-shaped, tube cylin- 

 dric : lobes ovate-oblong : filament inserted on the throat, decur-, 

 rent to the middle of the tube and there densely pubescent : anthers 

 exserted, hastate, bicaudate at the base, adhering to the middle of 

 the stigma : nectary of 5 linear-lanceolate glands, longer than the 

 calyx and ovaries and alternating with the calycine lobes : ovaries 

 two, obovoid, pubescent vrithout, especially at the apex : style 

 narrow fusiform : stigma ovoid, pentagonal, acute at the apes, 

 simple. 'i 



(1) P. ovATA. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 442, 



Syn, Parsonsia ovata. Wall. — Pottsia Cantoniensis, Hooh. ^• 

 .^rn. in Beech. Vvy. p. 198. {fiv.m fig.') 



Spec. Char, Shrub : leaves opposite, entire, petioled, glabrous," 



