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asumen, smooth on both sides : corymbs terminal or aXillaryj di« 

 thotomottsly branched, circinate : flowers secUnd, short- pedicelled : 

 *alyx deeply S-Cleft, slightly hairy : corolla rotate ; limb refiiexed : 

 Stamens exserted : dtupe l-ed when ripe, size of a siJiall pea, 



Goimfoatore, flowering from Augilst till October. 



(6) E. WiGHTIANA. (Wall.) 



ident. Wall. Cat. No. 7013.^G. Don. Gen. Syst. IV. p. 388; 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1384. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, glabfous : btanchlets slender, smooth : 

 !leaves elliptic-lanceolate, subacuminate above, tapering below into 

 a lofigish slender petiole, quite entire, smooth on both sides : co- 

 rymbs terminal, compact, dichotomous : branches revolute : flowers 

 secflnd, subsessile : calyx 5-lobed, much shorter than the tube of 

 the sub-hypocrateriform corolla : stamens exserted : style equalling 

 the tube : drtipes, when immatulre, about the size of a large pepper 

 corn. 



Courtallnin, flowering in August and Septembeif. 



(7) £. CUNEATA. (R. W.) 



ident. "Wight's Icon. vol. iV. & t. 1385. 



Spec, Char. Shrubby, branches virgate, terete, glabrous, ni-" 

 ■grescent, smooth : leaves obovate-cuneate, retuse, subsessile-, gla- 

 brous and smooth on both sides, quite entire, Coriaceous : flowers 

 solitary, axillary, on the ends of short leafy branches, subsessile : 

 Calyx 5-partedi lobes ovate-lanceolate, equallTing the tube of the 

 corolla, glabrous : corolla 5-cleft, lobes ovate obtuse : stamens at- 

 tached near the bottom of the tube, scarcely exserted : style filii 

 form : stigma capitate : fruit dry, 4-seeded. 



Banks of the Oavery river near Errode, flowering in February. 



GENUS Itl. RHAteDlA. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. Sex-. Syst: 



beriv. From RhahdoS, a twig ; alluding to the habit of the 

 fepecies. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5, very rarely 6-parted : corolla campanu. 

 late, tube short, limb 5-cleft ; stamens included, rising from tha 

 base of the corolla : anthers oblong, fixed at the base, erect, 2« 

 Tjelled : ovary ovate-oblong : style simple : stigma 2-lobed : berry 

 4, rarely 6-stoned, stones l-seedfed : seeds albuminous. 



