MONADELPHIA. DODECAND. 1309,1310. 1085 
1309. PLAGIANTHUS. Calyx s-cMv. petals 5, 
a of them approximate and remote from the 
reft; »: clavate : berry — . 
Plagianthus. 
New Zealand. Forji, Char. Gen. tab, r j t- 
Shrub with brown divaricate branches ; lea-ves tutted. Uncat, 
tapering to the bate ; fionxert folitary. 
fom, 
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hilt 
1310. HELICTERIS. Calyx tubular, obliquely 
5 -cleft; petals 5 : germ on a very long pedicel : 
about 5- cleft; capfules 5, i-celled, many- 
feeded, fpirally twifted. Screw-tree. 
Decandrous : leaves heart-fhaped, fliarply ferrate, dpwny 
underneath: fruit twitted, with the tips ftraight. 
Barn illand. 'Jacq.-imer. t, 149. pi3. t. izj. , . . 
ITrre flightly branched ; lea-vet icwie, wrinkled, v;huim under- 
neath ; many.flowered : /if^rVr/r glandular : calyx z- 
lipped ; the upper-lip bifid, lower trifid. 
***^*'"t* Decandrous : leaves hearted, unequally ferrate, pubefcent, 
downy underneath: fruit ovate, twitted, acute. 
Jamaica, Jacq. Amtr. t. lyp y. 99 - aim. t. 245./', 3. 
Floiven terminal : calyx campanulate, mealy-pubefcent. 
Decandrous: leaves elliptic, foinewhat hearted, tooth- 
ferrate, pointed, rough, downy underneath: flowcis 
oxillary; fruit twifted, fubulate at top. 
Malabar. Rheed. Mai. 6. /. 30. Rumph. amb. 7. 1. 1 7-/.t • 
Calyx tubular-clavate, 2-lipped : petals obovate. 
Decandrous: leaves ovate, pointed, ferrate, fomewhat 
hearted, downy; peduncles rnany-flowcred, axillaiy : 
fruit oblong, ftraight, very hairv, 
Cochinchina. Lour. Cochinch. 2. p. 648. 
Calyx with a long curved hairy coloured tube. 
Leaves lanceolate, very entire ; fruit ovate, ftraight. 
China. OJh.it, tab. , 
Leaaies naked above, downy underneath : flowers icatterea. 
Pcntandrous : leaves ovate; the fioral-ones colouied. 
Surinam. Leaves ferrate ; the floral-ones dull purple ; 
with branched brillles: capfules twitted, hairy. 
Polyandrous: leaves heart-fliaped, ferrate: fruit oblong, 
ftraight. 
Carthagena. fcicq. Amer. t, 1 50. piA. t. 228. 
Leaves downy both fides : f.owttt purple, fetid. 
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