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Adenema hyssopifolium, G. Don. — Cicendia hyssopifolia, W. i^ 4. 

 jn Hook. Comp. Mag. 



Engrav. Wight'ss Icot|. t.'600. 



Spec. Char. Stem smooth : leaves opposite, lanceolate, sub- 

 sessile, attenuated at the base with the petiole, obtuse at the apex : 

 lobes of the calyx ovate, acute, erect, shorter than the capsule j 

 calyx with bracts :. flowers small, white, sessile in the opposite axils. 



Common in Gtizerat. Concans. Coromandel. Bengal. Flow- 

 ering in the rainy season. 



GEN as VI, GENTIANA, 

 Itentandria Algynin. Sem: Syet: 



Bfriv. Prom Gentiua, king of lUyria, who iirst experienced 

 tihe virtues of the plant. 



Gen. Chab. Calyx 4-5-parted, or cleft, valvate in eestivation : 

 corolla ms^rcescei^t (withering op. the stalk), iiii\i;iel-shaped, or 

 salrer-sbaped, naked or furnished with a crown : limb 4-5- 

 parted, oi:, counting the folds, spuriously 10-oleft : stamens 4-5^ 

 inserted on the tube of the corolla : anthers inqumbent, or erect ; 

 sometimes united into a ttibe, opening externally : ovary some- 

 times bound vrith a spurious interrupted disk, 1-celIed, ovules 

 near the sutures : stigmas 2, terminal, revolute or^ if contiguous, 

 funnel-shaped : style none, or with the stigma, persistent : cap- 

 -snle 2-valved, septicidal, 1-celled : placentas membranaceous, 

 inserted along the edge of the sutures : seed immersed in the 

 placentas. — ^Herbaceous perennials, erect, or procumbent, with 

 raceme-like cymes, or terminal flowers. 



(1) G. FEDICELLATA. {Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 107< 



Syn. G. abscondita, Zenker. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 13?8.— Spicil. 11. t. 164. 



Spec. Char. Stem loosely ramous, glabrous : leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, the broader ones aristate at the apex, smooth on the 

 nmrgins, the lowest ones rosulate: flowers pedicelled: calyx cam- 

 pauulate, 5-cIeft, lobes ovate, cuspidate, recurved at the apex, 

 shorter than the clavate tube of the corolla ; corolla blue, the 

 tube furnished with 5 projecting, triangular, cutely mncronate 

 lobes : plicse emarginate : capsule obovate, rounded at the apex. 



Neilgherries. Pulneys. Common in pastures. Flowering all 

 ^h'e year. 



