GENUS I. GIESEKIA. 

 Pentandrla Pentagynia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. Named after Paul Dietrich Gieseke, a physician and 

 professor of Hamburg. 



G-EN. Ohab. Plowers hermaphrodite, ,1-bracteate : calyx 5- 

 parted, segments herbaceous, sometimes coloured, whitish within, 

 equal : corolla none : stamens 5 — 15, sub-hypogynous, free, singly 

 or by twos or threes inserted at the bottom of the calyx, and 

 alternate with its segments : filaments subulate from a broad 

 OTate base : anthers elliptic, versatile : ovaries five (4 — 3 by 

 abortion), sessile, verticilled, distinct, 1-ovuled: styles 5, short, 

 adnate to the central angle of the ovaries, with a recurved apex, 

 at length hooked : stigmas none : fruit wrapped in the calyx : 

 carpels 3 — 5, free, subrotund, warty, 1-seeded, iudehiscent : seed 

 vertical, subovate, rostellate : testa crustaceous, fragile : albumen 

 farinaceous : embryo annular : cotyledons linear. — Herbs, rarely 

 fruteseeat : leaves alternate or somewhat opposite, quite entire, . 

 fleshy, densely granulated beneath with small subcutaneous 

 glands : flowers small, pedicelled, greenish, afterwards very often 

 purplish, arranged in leaf-opposed, simple, glomerate or umbellate 

 cymelets : bracts at the base of the pedicel. 



(1) G-. PHAENACBOIDES. (Linn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 27. 



Syn. Koeireuteria molluginoides, Murray Gomm. Goetf. 3. p. 

 67. — Pharnaceum occultum, Forsh. — G. occulta, Roem. and SohuU. 

 Syst. VI. p. 735. 



Unffrav. Wight's Icon. IV. 1. 1167.— Eoxb. Cor. II. 1. 183.— 

 Murray 1. c. t. 2. fig. 1. 



Spec. Chab. Herbaceous : leaves short-petioled, elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, very obtuse, scarcely mucronulate, pale green 

 above, glaucous white beneath: cymes subsessile, shorter than 

 the leaf, baU-shaped, simple, 5 — 10-flowered, somewhat loose: 

 flowers nearly equalling the pedicel, pale green : segments of the 

 calyx nerveless. 



A common weed in pasture grounds, flowering at all seasons, 

 especially during the rains. 



(2) Gr. MOLIiTJ&ONOIDES. (JK. TV.) 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. vol. IV. t. 1168. 



Spec. Chae. Erect or ascending : leaves linear-lanceolate : 

 corymb axillary : peduncles about the length of the leaves : • 

 flowers largish-pedicelled : leaves clothed beneath with short 

 hairs ; sepals membranous on the margin : corolla none. 



Deesa, Bombay. 



