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prect, obsoletely 4-sided, sometimes pellucid at the margin : fol- 

 licles smooth : seeds comose. — Twining shrubs : leaves opposite, 

 furnished with a minute gland above towards the base : umbels 

 small, interpetiolar, short-peduncled. 



(1) H. Tanjorensis. (W. ^ A.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 42. — Dec. prod. VIII. p. 230. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 348. 



Spec. Char. Leaves broad ovate or oblong, shortly acumi- 

 nated, obtuse or cordate at the base : peduncles shorter than the 

 petiole, few-flowerpd : leaflets of the staminal crown spreading, 

 broad, truncated, interior process tongue-shaped : follicles divari- 

 pate, thin, glabrous, hooked at the apex. 



Sandy places in the Tanjore district. 



(2) H. Wallichii. (R. W.) 



Jdeni. Wight's Contrib. p. 42.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 630.— 

 Dalz. Bomb. Apr. p. 152. 



Spec. Char. Branches with two opposite lines of hairs : leaves 

 ovate-acuminate : peduncles very short, few-flowered : follicles 

 smooth, purple, blunt pointed : flowers fuscous within, 



SJieapore. Near Malwan. Flowering in September. 



(3) H. URCEOLATUM. {Dak.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 152. — Hook. Journ. Bot. IV. p. 

 295. 



Spec. Char. Stem purple, puberulous : leaves broadly ovate, 

 acute, cordate at the base : umbels very short-peduncled, few- 

 ifiowered : corolla deeply urceolate, reddish-purple. 



Hills near Belgaum, flowering in July. 



GENUS XXXI. PTEROSTELMA. 

 Pentandria Ulg^Tiia. Sex: Spst: 



Deriv. From Pteron, a wing, and Stelma, a crowm ; referring 

 to the leafy crown-leaves. 



Gen. Chae. Corolla rotate, S-cleft : staminal corona S-leaved ; 

 leaflets membranaceous, sides reflexed, inner angle prolonged with 

 an erect subulate tooth : anthers terminated by a membrane : 

 pollen-masses erect, approximated, affixed by the base to the back 

 of the cprpuscnle : stigma apiculate. 



