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lute :. anthers sagitte^te : stigma clavate : ovary didymous, surround- 

 ed by five hypogynous scales : fojlicles eohering : seeds comose at 

 the upper extremity. 



(1) H. Rheedii; (R. W.) 



Ident. tial*. Bomb, flor, p. 146. . 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1303. 



Spec. Chak. Twining^ glabrous : leaves ovate-aciite, short* 

 |>etio,led : corymbs trichotomous, many-fiowered : calyx lobes ovate* 

 obtus^, ciliated : corolla hairy -within : filaments twisted into a 

 spiral column : follicles 2-celled : seeds comose at the apex. 



'Banda, in the Warree country. T^avancore. 



6RDER CVin. ASdLEFIADACE^. 



■Calyx 5-part6d, sepals usually furnished with glands at thd 

 base within : aestivation (Juibcuncial : coi^oUa inonopetalous, 

 hypogynous, 5-cleft : throat naked or variously crowned with 

 glands or appendages, below more or less extensively adnate 

 with the tube of the stamens : aestivation subvalvate (the very 

 edge overlapping and therefore, strictly speaking, imbricate), 

 rarely contorted : stamens 6, inserted into the base of the co- 

 rolla, alternate with its lobes : filaments cohering, forming A 

 tube round the pistil (stylostegium or gymhostegium), rarely 

 free : anthers ere<5t, introrse, 2-celled or incompletely 4-celled : 

 cells perpendicular or transverse; apex simple; truncated, aou* 

 minatoi or fringed with a fine membrane : pojlen at the period 

 of the dehiscence of the aiither, either cohering in masses equal 

 to the number of the cells, or occasionally cohering in pairs, op 

 four together, or granular : when simply equal to the cellsi 

 attached by pairs, one from each of two adjoining anthers, to 

 the descending process of the stigmatic corpuscules : when more 

 numerous (as in Periploceae), adhering to the dilated apex 

 of the corpuscules : ovaries two : ovules numerous : styles two, 

 closely apptoaching each other, usually very short ; stigma com- 

 mon to both slyles, dilated, 5-cornered, the corners corpusciili-' 

 ferous : corpuscules either cartilaginous, bright shinmg brown^j' 



