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(1) P.. ACUMINATA. (7?. W.) 



Ident. "^yight's Contrib. p. 39.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 633. 



Spec. Char. Twining or decumbent ? leaves opposite, oblongs 

 acuminate, fleshy : segments of the corolla linear-lanceolate, tube, 

 hairy: leaflets of the crown broad, sides narrowly reflexed and^ 

 connivent with the margins : flowers largish, 



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GENUS XXXII.. H;0T4;. 



Pentaiidria nionosynia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. In honor of Thomas Hoy, F. L. S., late Gai-dener toi 

 the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House. 



Gen. Chab. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft : stamina] corona 5-leaved;. 

 leaflets depressed, spreading, fleshy, inner angle produced into a 

 tooth incumbent on the anther : anjthers terminated by a mem- 

 brane : pollen-masses affixed by the base, connivent, compressed :; 

 stigma mutic or subapiculate : follicles smooth : seeds comose.^ — 

 Shrubs or undershrubs, twining, climbing, or decumbent : leaves 

 opposite, fleshy or membrana,ceous : .umbels lateral, rnany-. 

 flowered. 



(1) H. VELUTINA. {R. W.) 



Ident. "Wight's Contrib. p. 35. — Dec. prod. VIII. p. 635. 



Spec. Char. Twining : leaves oval, shortly acuminated,, reso- 

 lute at the margin, glabrous above, velvety below : corolla pubes- 

 cent externally, glabrous within, segments broad, revolute at the. 

 margin : leaflets of the staniinal crown suborbicular, depressed, 

 shining above, inner angle obtuse, incumbent on the nmbilicate' 

 titigma. 



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(2) H. pendula. (W. 4- A:) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 36. — Dec. prod, VIII. p. 635. 



Si/n. Asclepias pendula, Hoxb.Jlor. Ind. II. p. 36. 



Ungrav. Wight's Icon. t. 474. — Rheede Mai. IX. t. 13. 



Spec Char. Twining : leaves fleshy, glabrous, from oblong-, 

 oval acute to broad-ovate acuminate, revolute at the margin : pe- 

 duncles a little exceeding the petiole, pendulous, many-flowered : 

 corolla pubescent within : leaflets of the staminal crown oboval,' 

 very obtuse, depressed, inner angle short, apex truncated : stigmi^ 

 apiculate : flowers middle sized, white, fragrant. 



Circars. Malabar. South Concans. Neilgherries. Flowering 

 in the rainy season. 



