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Spec. Chae. Shrubby, much branched, glabrous: young 

 shoots 3-sided, with prominent, sharp angles : leaves from oblong- 

 elliptic lanceolate to elliptic-obovate mucronate: male flowers 

 umbellato-capitulate : peduncles axillary, 1 — 3-flowered, length- 

 ening as the fruit advances : ovary conical : limb of the perianth 

 3-lobed : style short : stigma 3-lobed : fruit small, red -when 

 ripe. 



Common on the G-hauts. Neilgherries. Pulney hills. Bel- 

 gaum. 



GENUS IV. THESITJM. 



Fentandria Honogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Thes, a labouring servant, alluding to the mean 

 appearance of the plants. 



Gek. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite : free part of the calyx 

 sometimes hypocrateriform, usually funnel-shaped or campanulate, 

 5-, seldom 4-lobed, persistent ; stamens from the base of each 

 lobe : filament linear : anther oblong, 2-celled, cells dehiscing 

 lengthwise : disc epigynous : ovary inferior : style reaching the 

 stamens, or much shorter : stigma obtuse or capitate, sometimes 

 obscurely 2 — 3-lobed : ovules 3, pendulous : nut ellipsoid, cadu- 

 cous, often crowned with the calyx : embryo in the axis of fleshy 

 albumen : radicle superior, longer than the cotyledons. — Herbs 

 or small shrubs : leaves alternate, 1 — 3-nerved : flowers axillary, 

 solitary, or usually in 3 — 5-flowered cymes, sessile in the axil of a 

 leaf or bract, or terminating the extra- axillary peduncles : solitary 

 flowers usually bibracteolate, besides the bract, central ones of 

 the cymes furnished only with the bract of the cyme, lateral ones 

 then furnished with a bract and bracteole : cymes looseor approxi- 

 mate : calyx white, greenish, yellowish, or rarely purplish. 



(1) T. Wl&HTIANTIM. (Wall,) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 647. 



Mngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1852. 



Spec. Chae. Suffruticose, diffuse, decumbent : leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, acute: flowers solitary, or twin at the apex of the 

 branches : bract linear-lanceolate, subulate, scarcely longer than 

 the nut, bracteoles scarcely longer than the bract : nut ovoid, 

 sessile. 



Common in pastures on the Neilgherries. 



