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Stamineal urceole 10-15-toothed, with 5-10 of the 
teeth obtuse and sterile, and the 5 remaining ones 
alternate and monantherous. Style 1 : stigma 5- 
sided. Carpels 5, bi-valved, 1 -seeded, connivent into 
a subglobose echinated fruit: albumen none : cotyle- 
dons leafy, convoluted. 
Named , in honour of a Duke d’Ayen, a patron of Botany. 
1. * Ayenia pusilla. Weak Ayenia. 
Leaves ovate somewhat glabrous sharply serrated, 
stems prostrate. 
Urticse folio an o mala, flore pentaphyllo purpureo, fructu pcn- 
tacocco muricato, Sloune, I. 209. t. 1152. f. 2. 
HAB. Town-Savannah Sloune. 
FL. ? 
Branching from the root, about 6 inches in length. Flowers 
small, purple, axillary, solitary, shortly pedicelled, pendulous. 
Sloane states that he found this plant growing among the grass 
in the town Savannah. 
2. # Ayenia laevigata. Smooth Ayenia. 
Leaves ovate very glabrous entire, urceole exserted 
with ten teeth besides the stamens. 
Swartz, FI. lnd . Occ. 1131. 
HAB. Thickets: rare. — Swartz. 
FL. ? 
Flowers axillary, solitary, crimson : pedicels longer than the 
petiole. 
V. Melochia. 
Calyx 5-hd, naked or with 1-3 bracteas. Petals 
5, patent. Stamens 5, monadelphous at the base. 
Styles 5. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, with the valves 
septiferous : seeds 1—2 in each cell. 
Name, derived from the Arabic. 
1. Melochia tomcntosa. Downy Melochia. 
Leaves ovato-oblong crenated plicato-lineated on 
both sides hoary-tomentose as also the branchlets, 
umbels 3-8 flowered axillary or subterminal. 
A lmtilon arboreuin spicatum betonica? folio incano, flore 
