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GENUS VII. CRAWPURDIA. 



Pentandria Monog^ynia. Sex: Sj/stt 



Deriv. In honor of Jplin .Crawfurd, Gfovernor of Singapore, 

 author of a history of the Indian Archipelago. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 6-cleft or 5-toothed,- teeth distant : corolla 

 withering, clavate, destitute of pite^or glands, nalsed withiii, limb 

 5-parted, increased by exserted folds : stamens inserted at thft 

 bottom of the tube of the corolla : anthers erect, included : ovary 

 surrounded at the base by a 5-lobed hypogynous disc, 1-celled ; 

 style distinct, persistent, stigmas twin,, terminal, oblong, revo- 

 lute : capsule stalked, 2-valved, septicidal, valves very shortly 

 involute, subunilocular : seed imm,ersed in the plucentee, test* 

 winged . 



(1) C. FASCICUIATA. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. IX. p. 120. 



Syn. C affinis, Wall. — Gentiana voluhilis, Don. Nep. p. 126, ' 



Spec Char. Twinii^g : leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuateljr 

 acuminated : flowers very shortly pedicelled, subaggregate in the 

 axils : lobe's of the 5-cleft calyx bristly equalling the tube, of the 

 corolla oya^?, acute, folds short, .broad, round, eroded at the apex: 

 capsule obovate, three times longer than the stalk : flowers blue. 



Silhet. 



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GENUS VIII. OPHELIA. 



Pentandria UiKynla. fiex: Syiii^ 



Deriv. , From tlie Greek Opheleia, service ; the plants being 

 useful in Medicine. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 5-4-parted,. segments connected at the low- 

 est base : corolla withering, rotate, 5-4-parted, destitute of folds 

 and continuous crown, furnished above the base with glandulifer- 

 oTis pits which are sometimes naked and sometimes covered with 

 a small scaie, often fimbriated : stamens 5, 4, inserted on the 

 throat, filaments sometimes dilated at the base and monadelphona,' 

 sometimes equal at the base and free : antiiers incumbent, nod- 

 ding, usually greenish : ovary 1-celled, ovules many, inserted on 

 the sutures : stigmas twin, terminal, ^hort, ' often re volute, style 

 none or short : caipsule 2-valved, septicidal, 1-celled : seeds im- 

 mersed in the placentae, very numerous, small, usually wingless. 

 -7— Herbs, annual, or rarely perennial, straight, branched, panicledj 

 with nearly equal intei'nodes, opposite leaves, and terminal um» 

 belliform cvmes. 



