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stamens 6, beardless, three posterior ones fertile ; anthers adnate by 

 the back ; three anterior ones a little shorter, terminated by a gland: 

 ovary globose : style filiform, hooked at the apex : herry juiceless, 

 "globose, fragile : seeds numerous, arranged in six rows, fixed to 

 coarsely toothed central placentse, discoid-angled, crowned at the 

 flattened apex with an immersed umbo, shining, marked ail round 

 with Kttle lobes. 



(1) A. Indica. (R. W.J 



Idmt. Wight's Icon. vi. t. 2068. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial : stem erect, simple, and with the 

 panicle pubescent : leaves sheathing at the base, petioled, ovate- 

 lalioeolate, taperingly acuminate, acute, ^glabrous, except the petiole 

 and sheath: panicle long-peduneled, loose-: branches racemose, 

 spreading or slightly refiexed: petals obovaite-orTjicular, larger 

 than, the sepals : fruit globose, pale blue : cells 8-seeded in two 

 rows : seed quadangular, depressed. 



Malabar. "Western slopes of t^e Neilgherries, flowering in the 

 raiay season. 



GlENITS tl. DICH^SPEEMUM. 

 Hexandria Monogryiiia. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Perianth 6-parted, 3 exterior lobes calycine, 3 inner 

 ones petaloid : stamens 6, three calycine fertile, petaline ones barren : 

 filaments bearded or glabrous : ovary 3-cened : style simple, stigma 

 capitate : capsule 3-valved, 3-celled : valves septiferous : 2 rows of 

 superposed seeds in each cell : seed angular, smooth : embryo de- 

 pressed in the middle of the back.-^Herbaceous'erect or procumbent 

 ramous plants : leaves scarcely sheathing : inflorescence panicled, 

 terminal, or axUlaiy aad lateral : seed, when dry, brownish : 

 flowers blue. 



"(1) D. LANCEOlATTJil. (R.W.) 



'Ident. "Wight's Icon. vi. t. 2078. 



Spec. Chab. Procumbent at the base, rooting, afterwardfi erect, 

 glabrous : leaves Kneetr-laiideolate, bluntish : panicles terminal, 

 racemose, branches flexuose : pedicels from the axils of loose 

 cucullate bracts : all fllainents haity near the base : -capsule oblong, 

 -S-oelled, each cell having 20 seeds in each row. 



-Near Quilon in marshy soil. Malabar. 



