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surface deep shining green, glabrous, lower pale, shortly hispid, 

 short-petioled : spikes axillary, short, solitary or twin or temate, 

 hirsute, 4 — 8 flowered : limb of the calyx campanulate, segments 

 3, broad-ovate, acutish, pubescently hispid externally : ovary hir- 

 sute : stamens 9, appendiculate : anthers incurved, inner surface 

 long, hairy his.pid : capsule erect, 4-angled, marked with a promi- 

 nent middle nerve, slender, about 4 inches long. 



South Concan. Canara. Malabar. Travancore. 



GENUS II. AEISTOLOCHIA. 



Crynandria Hexandria. Sex: Syst : 



Deriv. Prom Aristos, best, and Loeheia, parturition, from its 

 reputed medical qualities. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx coloured, tubular, swelling above the ovary 

 into a globose or ovoid bladder, narrowed beyond into a tube, 

 either straight, arched, or refracted, at length expanded into a 

 Umb, which is very often irregular, sometimes peripherical, den- 

 tate or lobed, often 1 — 2 -lipped, the lips varying ia shape and 

 size : anthers 6, rarely 5, extrorse, 2-celled, cells parallel, conti- 

 guous, dehiscing lengthwise : ovary inferior, 6-celled, ovules 

 many, inserted in 2 rows at the central angle of the cell : styline 

 column simple, cleft above, rarely parted in 3, usually 6 stigma- 

 tose lobes : capsule 6-celled, many-seeded, 6-valved : seeds many 

 in one row, often boat-shaped with inflex^d margins : albumen 

 thickly fleshy. — Herbs, shrubs, or undershrubs, often twining : 

 leaves alternate, rarely lobed, never toothed, exstipulate : flowers 

 lurid, often large, unusually fetid. 



(1) A. BBAOTEAXA. {Betz.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. bot. fasc. 5. p. 29, No. 80.— Dec. prod. XV. 

 p. 478.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 490. 



Syn. A. braeteolata. Lam. — A. Mauritiana, Pers. Mich. 



Spec. Chae. Stems and branches weak, trailing on the ground : 

 leaves reniform, glaucous : flowers axOlary, solitary, peduncled : 

 peduncles furnished at the base with a kidney-shaped, curled, 

 sessile bract : flowers dark purple, hairy inside. 



Guzerat. Deccan. Coromandel. Banks of the Jumna. Flow- 

 ering nearly all the year. 



(2) A. Indioa. {Lkm.) 



Ident. Linn. sp. I. p. 860.— Dec. 1. e. p. 479. 

 Engrav. Eheede. Mai. VIII. t, 25. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby, twining: leaves linear, wedge-shaped 

 or obovate, 3-nerved, pointed, waved, smooth, 2—4 inches long : 



