TETRAND. MONOG. 222—224. 
223 
222. CANTHIUM. Calyx 4-toothed, fuperiori 
coTol i-petalled, with a fhort inflated tube and 
4-parted border, the mouth downy: dru-pe 2- 
celled, with a i-celled nut in each. 
Canthium. 
Coromandel. Roxh* Corom^ i. 5 ^* ^ 
Shrub branched and thorny : haws on the young (hoots oppo- 
fite, on the elder branches fafcicled, ovate, reflefted, entire: 
a/nW/err oppoftte, (mall : flowers ftnall, yellow. 
223. BELLARDIA. Calyx 4-cleft, fuperior: nec- 
tary with a 4-lobed margin, furrounding the 
ftyle: capfule 2-partible, many-feeded. 
’■'Mr. t, 
XJELLARDIA. 
Cayenne. Guiana, Aiibl, Guu i. 108. f. 42. Tontanea. 
firm creeping, with afcending villous branches : oppofite, 
entire, downy ; cymes peduncled, axillary. 
224. PEN.® A. Calyx lAtdLVtdi-. rcrc/ campanulate : 
quadrangular : capjule fquare, 4-celled, 8- 
^ feeded. 
Leaves ovate, flat : calyxes ciliate, larger than the leaf. 
^Ethiopia. PM. mant. 183. r»446.y’. 6, 
Lsaxirx rather obtufc; middle7?(nv«r without calyx. 
The concrete juice is fuppofed to be the Sarcocolla of the Ihops-' 
Flowers terminal : leaves pointed, glabrous. 
^Ethiopia. Leaves feffile; flowers red, in heads. 
Leaves heart-fliaped, margined : flowers lateral. 
The Cape, heaves oppofite or in threes, with a recurved mar- 
gin : flowers lateral, between the leaves, white. 
Flowers lateral, feffile : leaves ovate, glabrous. 
The Cape. Stems reddilh : leaves oppolite, feflile. 
Flowers lateral ; leaves ovate, downy. 
The Cape. 7 hunh. prodr, 30. Willd. \.p, 627. 
Leaves rhombic-ovate : brakes wedge-ffiaped, acute, co- 
loured. 
The Cape. Shrub with round branches and angular branchlets ; 
leaves oppolite fiowers fafcicled, terminal, purple. 
^'^‘‘»>osai Leaves rhombic-wedge-lbaped, flelhy. 
^Ethiopia. Bractes fringed, refinous and uniSuous. 
^‘‘^esa. Leaves rather oblong, obtufe: braftes orbicular, acute. 
The Cape. Leaves oppofite, thickilh, remote ; flo<v;ers at the ends 
of the branches, nearly folitary, on (hort peduncles. 
ni)TtO!aes. 
