Spec. Cuar. Stem slightly hairy at the’ base: leaves some-
what radical, spreading: scape glabrous with few small erect leaves :
style undivided at the base while flowering, afterwards 2-cleft.
Khasia. Assam.
(3) M. capintaris. ( Wail.)


Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 11.
Syn. M. trinervis, Spanaghe in Linn. XV. p. 335.—M. Malac-
eensis, R. W.—-Limnophila campanuloides, Benth. in Wall. Cat,
No. 3908. :

Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1601.
Spzc. Cuan. Stem slightly hairy at the base, leafy: leaves
Janceolate: peduncles umbelliferous, nearly naked, glabrous : style
undivided at the base while flowering, afterwards 2-cleft.
Canara.
GENUS I. STRYCHNOS.
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst:


Deriv. The.Greek name of the Solanum.
Gen. Car. Calyx 5-lobed : corolla tubular, hypocrateriform,
or infundibuliform with an abbreviated tube, throat naked or.,
bearded, limb 5-partite : stamens inserted in the throat, filaments,
very short, anthers slightly exserted : ovary 2.celled : style fli.
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form : stigma capitate, undivided or obscurely somewhat 2-lobed :
ovules numerous: berry with a rind, 1-celled, many-seeded, or 1-
seeded by abortion : seeds nestling in pulp, discoidly compress-
ed: embryo somewhat bilamellate at the base of cartilaginous
albumen, excentric, straight, short: cotyledons sessile, leafy :
radicle terete, vague.—Trees or shrubs, usually climbing : leaves
opposite, short-petioled, quite entire, 3-5-nerved at the base, pe-
tioles connate at the base: another leaf, often abortive, and put-
ting forth from the axil a simple tendril-shaped branchlet : axils
in some species bearing a straight thorn: corymbs axillary or
terminal : flowers white, or whitish green, usually fragrant.
(1) S. Waxiicniana. (Steud. )


Ident. Dee. prod. IX. p. 13.
Syn. S. lucida, Wail.
