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(1) G. ACUMINATUM. {R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 62.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 504. 



Spec. Char. Twining shrub : bark somewhat warty : leaves 

 opposite, oblong-elliptic) acuminated at the apex, shining above : 

 cymes panicle-shaped, lax, many-ilowered : segments of the corolla 

 ligulate, pubescent within to the middle, glabrous above : stamihal 

 corona shorter than the gynostegium, fleshy ; stigma cylindric. 



Silhet. 



GENUS IX. TOXOOASPUS. 

 Pentandria Disynla. Sex 



Deriv. From Toxos, a bow:, and Karpos, fruit ; alluding to the 

 shape of the follicle. 



Gen. Chab. Corolla rotate^ 5-deft : stamihal corona 5-leaved : 

 leaflets nearly flat at the back, increased within ,by a small inci- 

 sion : pollen-masses 2(>, erect, affixed by fours to the apex of each 

 corpuscule : stigma beaked, rarely apioulate, undivided : folliclea 

 smooth, divaricate : seeds comose. 



(l)T.KtEiim. (W.^A.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 61.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. SOS. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 886. 



Spbc. Char. Twining : stems glabrous : younger branchlets 

 pubescent : leaves elliptic, shortly and suddenly acuminated : co- 

 rymbs subsessile : branches divaricate, longer than the leaf : flow- 

 ers pedicelled : segments of the corolla ligulate : throat somewhat 

 hairy : leaflets of the staminal corona bidentate-truncate, bearing at 

 the apex an inner flat linear long-exserted incision exceeding the 

 anthers and somewhat Srtoothed at the- apex : stigma beaked, 

 shortly 2-cleft at the apex, slightly exceeding the tube o£ the co- 

 rolla : follicles arcbedly reflexed.. 



Common in hedges at Vellagany, near Negapatam. 



(2) T. Geiefithsii. (Z>ijc.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VIII. p. SOS. 



Spec. Char. Twining : branchlets slender, clothed with short 

 deep brown pubescence : leaves oblong, acuminate, paler beneath t 

 cymes peduncled, shorter than the petiole : segments of the corolla 

 ligulate, hairy at the tlttoat : leaflets of the staminal corona combined 

 at the base, acuminated, acute inwardly with a small incurved 

 toothlet, equalling the anthers: stigma beaked, thickened at th» 

 apex, 2-lobed : lobes roundish, 



Near Madras, 



