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GENUS IX. KOCHIA. 

 Pentandrla I>igynia> Sev: Systi 



Deriv. In honour of Herr Koch, a German botanist. 



Gen. Chab. Plowers hermaphrodite, ebracteate : calyx ur- 

 ceolate, 5-cleft, the divisions Mially growing at the back into 

 membranaceous wings : stamens often exserted, inserted at the 

 bottom of the calyx : ovary depressed, globose : styles 2, divari- 

 cate, cohering at the base : utricle depressed, somewhat mem- 

 branaceous, covered by the winged calyx : pericarp membrana- 

 ceous: seed horizontal, somewhat umbilicate, with a membra- 

 naceous covering. — Herbs or undershrubs, villous or pubescent : 

 leaves alternate, sessile, flat, narrow : flowers axillary, solitary or 

 glomerulate, females winged, hermaphrodites sometimes wingless : 

 wings often striated, sometimes coloured. 



K. Inbica. (JJ. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. V. & t. 1791. 



Spec. Chab. Herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, branched : 

 branches ascending,'and, like the branchlets, more or leas woolly : 

 leaves linear, lanceolate, sessile, villous on both sides : flowers 

 1 — 2 together iu each axil : calyx very woolly : wing exceeding 

 the calyx, scariose, nearly glabrous : seeds black. , 



Coimbatore, in salt soils, flowering in October. 



ORDER GXXVII. BASELLACEJE. 



Calyx double, fleshy or membranaceousj often coloured, 

 coroUine, persistent : outer more or less combined with the 

 inner, 2-cleft, 2-parted or 2-sepaled : segments subopposite, 

 equal, erect or spreading, at length dry or baccate, expanded 

 at the back into a vertical vising or keeled and ribbed below, 

 often without wings or ribs, inner one 5-cleft or parted, 

 segments equal or unequal, erect, seldom spreading : oestiva- 

 tion imbricated : corolla none : stamens perigynous, or rather 

 hypogynous and combined below into a short urceolus, 

 opposite the sepals, enclosed or slightly exserted : free portion 

 of the filaments subulate, dilated below: anthers 2-celled, 

 ovate or sagittate, introrse, dehiscing lengthways, fixed by 

 the middle of the back : ovary 1, ovate or somewhat 

 3-cornered, free, 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style terminal, simple. 



