MONADELPHIA. PENTAND. 1294. Melochia. 1053 



procumbent* 



veuearia. 



grosiulari- 

 folia. 



incita. 





Leaves oblong, pinnatifid-toothed : ftem procumbent. 

 The Cape. Cavun. dijf. 6. p. 329. /. 177. /*. 2. 

 Peduncles 1 -flowered; calyx campanulate, angular. 



Leaves pinnatifid, tapering to the bafe, hairy underneath: 

 fruit inflated. 

 The C^pc. Cavmu diff. 6. ^. 33 1 . /. 1 81. /♦ 2. 



Leaves lanceolate, pinnatifid. 



The Cape. Peduncles 2- flowered. 



Leaves pinnatifid, with linear-fanceolate entire fegments : 

 petals with claws and deeply toothed. 



- Willd. 3. p. 599, Petals cue towards the claw. 



1294. MELOCHIA. Calyx often double: petals 5, 

 fpreading: f laments Tubulate: ftyles 5: capjule 

 5 -celled, i-feeded. 

 pyramtdafa. Flowers umbelled: capfules pyramidal, with 5 mucronate 

 angles: leaves naked. 

 Braril. Cavan.a\fJ. 6. t. 172. f. I. J acq hcri. I. /. 30. 

 Shrub with deprei'fed diffnfe branches : leaves alternate, ovate, 

 pointed, ferrate, glabrous; corolvc^. 



tomentosa. Flowers umbelled, axillary : capfules pyramidal, with 5 

 mucronate angles : leaves downy. 

 2. Seem fhrubby, creel. Jacq. obj\ 2. /. 44 M. frutefcens. 

 Jamaica. Cavan, dfs. 6. /. \^z.f. 2. 'Slo unr "J am . t. 138./". z, %, 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, crenate, plaited, downy. 



crenata. Leaves roundifh, crenate, downy, marked with lines : 

 umbels axillary and terminal, peduncled. 

 South Amejica. Vabl. fymb. 3. p. '86. /. 68. 

 Branches downy ; leaves petioled : flipules ovate. 

 depressa. Flowers folitary : capfules depreffed, 5-fided, with the an- 

 gles obtufe and ciliate. 

 Havannah. Cavan- dift. 6. / 1 7 3 , y. 1 ? 

 Leaves angular, like thofe of the Cu; rant- bum. 



truncata. Flowers folitary : capfules depreffed : leaves wedge- form, 

 toothed at top. 

 Eaftlndies. WilU.fp.pl 3. /. 601 . «. 5. 



Branches divaricate, downy : leaves mucronate, glabrous above, 

 hairy underneath; fiovcers peduncled. 



venosa, Peduncles diftinct., terminal, many-flowered : leaves ovate, 

 ternate, veined, downy underneath : ft em hairy. 

 Jamaica. Sivan'z prodr. 97. Fi. ind.occ. *, /». 1137. 

 Branches erec"r, hairy ; corol yellow. 



Spikes terminal, contracted: leaves ovate, acute, vil- 

 lous. 

 - — Cavan* di/s. 6. /, 175./. 1. Leaves not pointed, 



birsuta. 



