MONADELPHIA. DODECAND. 1309,1310. 1085 



1309. PLAGIANTHUS. Calyx 5-deft: petals 5, 

 1 of them approximate and remote from the 

 reft: ftyle 1: ftigma clavate : berry — . 



livaritaiui Plagianthus. 



New Zealand. Forjl. Char. Gen. tab. 43. 



Shrub with brown divaricate branches : leaves tufted, linear, 

 tapering to the bafe : flowers folitary. 



1310. HELICTERIS. Calyx tubular, obliquely 

 5-cleft: petals 5: germ on a very long pedicel: 

 ftyle about 5 -cleft: capjules 5, 1 -celled, many- 

 feeded, fpirally twilled. Screw-tree. 



iaruensis. Decandrous : leaves heart-fhaped, fharply ferrate, downy 

 underneath: fruit twifted, with the tips ftraight. 

 Baru illand. Jacq.Jtner. t. 149. picl. t. 227. 

 "Tree flightly branched : leaves acute, wrinkled, whitifh under- 

 neath: peduncles many-flowered : pedicels glandular: calyx 2- 

 lipped j the upper-lip bifid, lower trifid. 



jamaicensis. Decandrous : leaves hearted, unequally ferrate, pubefcent, 

 downy underneath: fruit ovate, twifted, acute. 

 Jamaica. Jacq. Amer. t. 179./^ 99. Pluk. aim. t. 24.5./. 3. 

 Flowers terminal : calyx campanulate, mealy-pubefcent. 



Isora. Decandrous: leaves elliptic, fomewhat hearted, tooth- 



ferrate, pointed, rough, downy underneath: flowers 

 oxillary; fruit twilled, fubulate at top. 

 Malabar. Rhecd. Mai. 6. /. 30. Rumph. amb. 7. /.< 7./. I . 

 Calyx tubular-clavate, 2-lipped : petals obovate, 



klrjuta. Decandrous: leaves ovate, pointed, ferrate, fomewhat 

 hearted, downy: peduncles many-flowered, axillary : 

 fruit oblong, ftraight, very hairv. 



Cochinchina. Lour. Cucbinch. 2. p 648. 



Calyx with a long curved hairy coloured tube. 



ar.gustifolia Leaves lanceolate, very entire: fruit ovate, ftraight. 

 China. OJb. it. 232. tab. 3. 

 Leaves naked above, downy underneath : Jlovjers fcattered. 



peniandra. Pentandrous : leaves ovate ; the. floral-ones coloured. 



Surinam. Leaves ferrate; the rloral-ones dull purple; calyx 

 with branched bridles : capfules twifted, hairy. 



tarthage- Polyandrous : leaves heart-fhaped, ferrate: fruit oblong, 

 nensh. ftraight. 



Carthagena. "Jacq. Amef. t. 150. piil. t. .'228. 

 Leaves downy both fides : fowers purple, t'cud. 



