452 
triflora. 
decumhens. 
mila. 
thyrsifolia. 
PENTAND. DIGYN. 528—531. 
The Cape. ’Jhunb.nov.Gen. z. p. cum tab. olal'* 
Sfem herbaceous: leaws oppofite, feffile, narrow 
flightly pubefeent ; flowers peduncled, z or 3 from th® ^ 
branches. 
Ilfid' 
528. BUMALDA. 5 -parted; carol 
Jiyles villous: capfuls 2 -celled, 2-beaked. 
Bumalda. 
Japan. Umb.Jap. 114. WiUd. i.p, 1354. \ilti 
Shrub with oppofite ternate leaves; leafets ov8te-la»‘^® 
finely ferrate : racemes terminal. ^ 
529. BECHERA. Calyv; 5-cleft, fuperior, 
globular tube: coral 5-petalled: capjtdf 
2-valved. 
Bechera. 
Oldenlandia digyna; Retz. ohf. 4, p. 23. Willd. i • f- 
Tranquebar. Stesns branched, decumbent; lea-ves jif' 
entire, fellile : flowers axillary, feffile, or on very 
duncles: minute, white; flamim $1 fiyks to. fjoif 
In claffiiication and appearance this plant is fo remot® 
Oldenlandia, that it necellarily forms a new 
therefore named it from the Rev. John Becher, of 
Nqttingharolhire, an accurate botanift, to whom th® 
is indebted for the difeovery of the Crocus nudifiorus- 
530. PHYLLIS. Stigmata briftiy; calyx 
coral 5-petalled: feeds 2. 
Phyll IS. Bajiard ^ 
Canaries. D///. e/r-^. 403, /. 299./. 386. ValerianelJa- is 
jointed; /saws fpear-lh aped, paler underneath, 
threes; dowers terminal, in loofe panicles. 
UMBELLED. 
531. CUSSONTA. Petals 3-fided; margn^ 
receptacle dilated into a 5-toothed calyx \ AliS 
compreffed, double, angular, crowned 
calyx and Ityle. 
Leaves in finger-like clivifions ; the leafets fellile> “ 
form, truncate, 3-toothed: flowers racemed. 
The Cape. Thuni, AH, notj. Upf, 3. p. 1 20. t. l z. 
Leagues alternate, petioled; racemes umbelled, with 4 
Leaves finger-like ; the leafets flightly petioled, 
flipule 3 or 5-palmate, finely ferrate ; flowers If 
The Cape. Thunb. AH. Up/, p. 120. r. 13. 
fpicata. 
