Sprc. Cuar. leafless shrub: umbels short-peduncled, few-
flowered: calyx 5-parted, segments subulate at the apex: corolla
villous externally, glabrous within, twice as long as the gynoste-


gium: filaments furnished at the base with a small gland or fleshy
‘leaflet: anthers free, incumbent on the apiculate stigma.
Doab, Hindustan.
GENUS XXVIII. PENTASACME.
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Sysi:
Deriv. From Pente, five, and Achme, a point ; alluding to the
. pointed segments of the corolla.
Gen. Cuar. Corolla subrotate, deeply 5-cleft, throat crowned
with 5 small scales opposite the segments: staminal crown


none: anthers free, simple or acuminate at the apex: pollen-'


masses pendulous, attached above the middle, apex narrowed,

* pellucid: stigma mutic or apiculate—Slender erect somewhat
branched herbs: leaves opposite, flat, membranaceous : umbels
subsessile, few-flowered : segments of the corolla 2-3 times longer
than the tube, narrow linear,


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pe (1) P. caupatum. (Wali.)


_ Adent. Wight’s Contrib. p. 60.—Dec. prod. VIII. p. 627.—
Wall. Asclep. No. 5.
_ Spec. Cuar. Leaves lanceolate, long-attenuated: segments of
the corolla subulate, scales of the throat largish, 4-cleft: anthers
‘obtuse: stigma mutic.
‘Silhet mountains.
(2) P. Waxiicuu. (R. W.)


_ Ident. Wight’s Contrib. p. 60.—Dec. prod. VIII. p. 627.—
Wall. Asclep. No. 74.
Spec. Cuar. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate: umbels subsessile,
few-flowered : segments of the corolla linear, obtuse: scales of the
throat small, gland-shaped: anthers acuminate: stigma subrostrate,


Silhet. %


GENUS XXIX. LEPTADENIA.
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst:


Deriv. From Leptos, slender, and Aden, a gland.
