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ovate, acuminate, sinuately repand : peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 usually longer than the leaves ; terminal umbels 3 — 6-flowered : 

 flowers conspicuous, funnel-shaped, each supported on a longish 

 pedicel: stamens 3 or 4, exserted : fruit clavate, glandulose, 

 rough : flowers pink or rose colour. 



Southern India, climbing among hedges and bushes. 



(3) B. STELLATA. (JB. W.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 213. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 875. 



Spec. Chab. Decumbent: leaves succulent, ovate-cordate, 

 obtuse-mucronate : racemes long-peduncled : flowers verticelled, 

 subsessile, interruptedly subspicate : ovary club-shaped, elongated, 

 furrowed, with 5 elongated viscid glands at the apex: flowers 

 white or pink. 



Kattywar. 



(4) B. EEPENs. {Linn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. e. p. 453.— Dalz. 1. c. p. 213. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous, creeping, difiuse : leaves ovate, ob- 

 tuse, sinuate repand, pubescent, white beneath: peduncles ax- 

 illary, short, bearing short umbels: fruit ovate-elliptic, ribbed, 

 viscous : flowers small, deep pink. 



Plains of the Decean. 



(5) B. EETJTIOOSA. Dalz. 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. p. 213. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby, erect, viscid and tomentose: leaves 

 small, ovate, with a truncate base, sometimes triangular, much 

 wrinkled on the other side : peduncle axillary, a& long as the leaf, 

 pedicels as long as the peduncle: fruit linear-oblong, sulcated, 

 pubescent, tubereulated along the ribs : flowers umbellate, small, 

 pink. 



Sewnere fort. Ghauts east of Bombay. Flowering in Sep- 

 tember. 



GENUS II. PISONIA. 

 Heptandria IMConogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. In honour of Piso, formerly a physician of Amsterdam. 



Gen. Chae. Bracteoles 1 — 3, minute, seldom persistent: 

 perianth small, campanulate or cylindric, limb shortly 5-toothed : 

 flowers seldom hermaphrodite, usually dioecious by abortion- 



