498 



(9) P. MUCKONAIA. (Roxb.) 



Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 80.— Dec, prod. XI. p. 635. 



Spec Char. Small tree : branches panicle petioles and nerves, 

 of the leayes h^iry pubescent : leaves petialed, broad-oyate^ mucro-. 

 nulate into a point, attenuaited, quite entii;e, pjabescent on both, 

 sides, soft below ; panicle divaricately corymbose, loose, many- 

 flowered : qalyx somewhat equally 5-cleft : lower lip of the some-, 

 what equally 4-cleft funnel-shaped corolla together with the throat, 

 villously bearded. 



Silhet. 



(10) P. ESCULENTA. (i?0x6.) 



Jdent. Koxb. fl. Ind, III. p. 80.— Dec. prod. XI. p. &36. 



Spec. Chak. Shrub : branchlets and cymes thinly mealy- 

 puberulo.us : lea,ves very shortly petioled, oblong, acuminate, some- 

 what narrowed at the base, glabrous, coarsely and sharply toothed; 

 aboye, glaucescent below : cyme terminal, small, contracted : calyx 

 2-lipped, unequally 5-toothed: tube of the corolla greenish-yellow. 



Chittagong. 



(11) P. HERSACEA. (Roxh.) 



Jdfut. Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 80.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 637. 



Spec. Char. Suffruticose, Repressed, or herbaceous, without a, 

 stem : branchlets, cymes and network of the leayes hairy-pubescent :• 

 leaves very shortly petioled, obovate or rotund, subacupiinate, serrato- 

 dentate above, villosely ciliated ^ upper surface at last glabrate, lower 

 somewhat hoary and densely glandular-dotted : cymes terminal and; 

 axillary, shorter than the leaf: calyx 5-eleft, round.-lobed, ciliated: 

 flowers small, pale whitish yellow. 



Interior of Bengal. Goruckpore. Flowering in February and, 

 Ma^ch. 



GIINUS X. CALLICARPA. 

 Tetandrin Itlo.nosyiiia. Sex: Syst.- 



Dgriv. Frorti Kalos, beautiful, and Karpos, fruit. 



Gen, Char. Calyx cupula-shaged cup-shaped, or mora rarely- 

 tubular, 4-5-rihbed, and often angular or plicate, 4-5-toothed or 

 rarely 4-cleft, persistent : corolla sub-campannlato-tubular, tube 

 short, limb 4-5-cleft equal : stamens 4, rarely 5, inserted on the tube 

 of the corojlft, equal, exserted : anthers inserted a,t the back ab.o.ve the 



