268 



slenderly pedicelled : calyx wingless, ^entate, teeth acute, abou| 

 one-third the length of the lobes of the corolla : style scarcely the 

 length of t^ie tube, stign^a inclusive.; 



Malabar and Mysore. ,,. 



(7) 0. decurre:??. (DgZa.) 



Jdent. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. IT. p. 156. — ^Bomb. flor. p. 

 157. " " ' ■ ■ 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, broadly 4-wiiiged': branches opposite 

 and alternate : leaves decurrent, lower ones oblong, attenuated 

 towards the base, upper ovate or lanceolate, acute : calyx without 

 wings : corolla small, pale rose-coloured or white. 



In rice fields, Southern Ooncan, flowering in October and Novem- 

 ber. • '^ ' 



(8) C. PJVUCIFLOEA, {Dalz..). 



Iderft. Palz.'ut supra. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, 4-winged, scarcely branched : leaver 

 yery small, lower ovate-obtuse, upper obliong-acnte, all sessile, "3- 

 nerved, rough on the margin alone : panicle lax, few-flowered ; 

 flowers long-pedicelled, solitary : pedicels 4-winged, thickened 

 upwards. " ' 



Malwan, in grassy places, flowering ip September, ^ 



GENUS V. SLEVOGTIA. 

 I^entandria ]fEonoK7nla> Sex .- Syit .• 



Deriv. In honor of J. H. SleT0g^;, a Botanist and Author. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-eleft, ebracteate, lobes wingless : coijqlla 

 funnel-shaped, naked, withering and twisted above ,the capstile, 

 tube cylindric from the bottom enlarged into a canipanulate 

 throat, limb 6-parted : stamens five, inserted, included, sheaths 

 attached above to the short tube of the corolla, and increased 

 between the filament by five short teeth : anthers erect, produced 

 by a connectivum into a sm6,ll point ; ov^ry l-cejle^ : style dis- 

 tinct, deciduous, stigma undivided, capitulate : capsule 2-valy^, 

 septicidal, 1 -celled, placentse sutural : seeds minute, subglobose. 



(1) S. ORIENTALS. (Dec. J 



Ident. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 65. 



Syn. Gentiana verticillaris, Retz. — G. verticillata, Linn. — Ex- 

 ^um byssopifolium, Willd. — Hippion hyssopifolium, Spreng.-~t 



