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ferkcts leafy, cuspidate, longer than the calyx : calyx pedicellecl, ref y 

 shortly 4-toothed furnished in front with many discoid glands; 

 flowers large, bright sulphur. 



■Cordmatidel. Travancore. Plowetmg nearly all th6 year. 



(4) G. OBLONGIFOLIA. (Roxh.) 



Ident. RoXb. flor. In'd. III. p. 83.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 6fd. 



Spec. Char. Arboreous: leaves oblong or oval, entire, some- 

 what wrinkled, glandularly impressed on both sides at the base of 

 the nerves : panicles terminal, solitary, decussate : bracts small, 

 Caducous : calyx entire : flowers nuinerous, large, rose, fragrant. 



East of Bengali 



GENUS XIII. VITElX. 

 iOidynaiuia Ansiospermia.' Sex: Spsti 



jberiv. From Vieo, to bind ; in allusion to the flexible brancheSi 



Gen. Char. Calyx cup-shaped, campanulate or tubular, funnel- 

 shaped, 5-toothed, or eleft, teeth or segments a little unequal : 

 coroUa 2-lipped, upper lip 2-cleft^ lower S-oleffc, lateral segments 

 a little longer than the upper ones, the middle one larger than 

 the rest and stretched out, throat often campanulately inflated : 

 stamens four, didynamous, inserted on the tube, ascending, exsert- 

 ed : anthers obcordate, cells separate at the base, dehiscing longi'. 

 tudiuaUy : ovary 4-oelled, cells 1-ovuled : style terminal filiform, 

 2-cIeft at the ape^ with acute feet, acute : drape seated on the 

 enlarged and often broken calyx, juicy, 1 -stoned," 4-celled, puta- 

 men woody ; seed erect. — Trees or shrubs : leaves opposite, 

 usually digitate, very rarely simple by the abortion of the lateral 

 leaves : cymes trichotomons or simple, axillary or panicled. 



(1) V. BicoLOR. (Wind.) 



Ident. Willd. En. Hort. Ber. p. 606.— Dec. prod, XI. p. 683. 

 i-^Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 201. 



Spec. Char. Shrub : branchlets, panicle, and underside of the 

 leaves white with a fine tomentum : leaves petioled, 3 to 5-foliolate : 

 leaflets lanceolate, long acuminated, entire or" coarsely^ cut and 

 erenated : panicle terminal, pyramidal : flowers light-blue ; berry 

 black, size of a pea. 



' Bombay. Northern India, 



