Sonerila, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 3181 
root, all are nearly round and bristly ; height of the whole plantfrom 
_ six totwelveinches.— Leaves opposite, long-petioled, more or less un- 
equally broad ovate-cordate, nerved, bristle-serrulate, pointed, surface 
bullate, and marked with numerous small white specks, from the 
cent. e of each rises a slender, subulate, bristle ; veins and nerves brist- 
ly, length from two to six inches, by from one to three broad.— Ra- 
cemes axillary, spiral, their peduucles as long as the petioles, deeply 
coloured and hairy.— Flowers springing from the upper convex side of 
the raceme, short-pedicelled, red, bristly.-— Bractes subulate, mi- 
nute.— Calyr superior, three-sided, and tubular ; mouth three-tooth- 
ed, permanent.— Petals three, lanceolar, inserted into the mouth of 
the calyx, alternate with its segments, smooth on the inside, on the 
outside are frequently found some slender bristles. Nectary of three, 
laciniated scales round the base of the style.— Filaments three, alter- 
nate with the petals, and about their length. Anthers sagittate, one- 
third as long as the filaments, until the flower has been expanded some 
time they are inverted within the tube of the calyx, afterwards erect. 
—Germ clavate, three-sided, three-celled ; ovula numerous, attach- 
ed to their respective receptacles, rising from the axis, exactly as in 
Osbeckia chinensis. Gert. Carp.9. t. 196. Style length of the stamens. 
Stigma simple.— Capsules erect, three-sided, clavate; pedicel includ- 
ed, about half an inch long, three-celled, opening at the apex.— 
Seeds very numerous, and too minute to admit of my ascertaining 
their internal structure. | : 
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2. S. emaculata. Roxb. 
Leaves opposite, unequally narrow-cordate, acute, bristly, but 
void of spots, serrulate, ciliate. i : 
E native of the Khassee mountains on the North-East border of 
Bengal, where it flowers in J uly, and differs from the preceding 
Species, in the leaves being destitute of the little round white spots, 
into which the bristles are inserted, (viz. one in the centre of each 
. Spot.) It is also less robust than that plant, with longer peduncles to 
the racemes, which are sometimes leaflet-bracted at the middle. 
The flowers, and seed vessels are alike. — r U f 
