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the disk. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, '07 to '1 in. long, greenish- 
white, lobes short, rounded. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments short dilated ; anthers 2-eelled, rounded, about 
as long as filaments. Ovary semi-inferior, 2-celled ; placentas axile,. 
stalked, bearing many ovules ; style short, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. 
Capsule depressed-globose, eircumsciss at the margin of the calyx-tube, 
the crown and calyx-lobes deciduous. Seeds very numerous, oblong, 
minute, scabrous ; testa reticulate with rectangular cells. Wall. Cat. 
1516 ; Eoxb. FI. Ind. I. 507, FI. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. II. 116 ; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 569 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLYI. ii. 
209 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 438; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 519; 
Baillon Hist, des Plantes, VIII. 327, t. 158-161 ; Cooke Bomb. Flora, 
II. 75; Prain Beng. Plants I. 635; Schonl. in Engl, and Pr. Pflz — Fam. 
IV. 5, 61, fig. 38. S. Pongatium, A. DC. Prod. VII. 548 ; Wight 111. t. 
138. Pongatium indicum, Lamk. 111. II. 444 ; Encyc. Meth. Bot. V. 
564. Gaertnera Pangati, Betz Obs. VI. 24. Bapinia herbacea, Lour. 
FI. Cochinch, (ed. Willd.) I. 157. Sphenoclea, Griff. Notul. IV. 276. 
“ Pongati,” Bheede Hort. Mai. XI. 47, t. 24. 
Malacca : Griffith.— Distkib. Swampy places and wet fields, and 
along river banks in tropical regions of both hemispheres. 
Order LXV. VACCINIACEiE. 
Shrubs or small trees, often epiphytic, with stems swollen at the 
base. Leaves alternate or in pseudo-whorls, entire dentate or serrate, 
evergreen, ex-stipulate. Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes, or 
solitary and axillary, hermaphrodite, usually regular ; pedicels 1-brae- 
teate and also often with 2 bracteoles, often articulate beneath the 
ovary. Calyx campanulate or cupular, the tube adherent to the ovary, 
its limb persistent on the fruit, usually 5-toothed. Corolla tubular 
(sometimes inflated), campanulate or globose, 5-toothed or 5-lobed, 
usually imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 10, epigynous, inserted at the 
base of the corolla-tube ; anthers opening by apical pores, or often pro- 
duced into 2 tubes, opening by slits, filaments flattened, free or connate 
by their bases. Ovary inferior, crowned by an epigynous disk, 5-celled 
or falsely 10-eelled ; style cylindric ; stigma simple ; ovules many 
(rarely few), the placentas axile or pendulous from the upper inner 
angle of each cell. Fruit baccate, rarely dry, 5- or falsely 10-celled. 
Seeds numerous or few (rarely only 1) in each cell, small, compressed, 
albuminous. Species about 350, natives chiefly of cold and temperate 
regions throughout the world. 
