Rubia. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | $83 
gins and elevated nerves very villous.— Panicles divaricate, termi- 
nal or axillary, generally opposite, with some pairs of opposite small . 
leaves. — Kamifications divaricate, trichotomous, filiform, with mi- 
nute bractes at their base.— Divisions of the corolla lanceolate, acute, 
-one-nerved.— Seeds round, covered with copious soft, hooked bris» 
.tles.—N. W. 
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RUBIA. Schreb. Gen. 164. 
Calyx scarcely any. Corol one-petalled, from four to five parted. 
Berries inferior, twin. Seeds solitary. Embryo R and furnished 
with a perisperm. 
TER Muijista. R 
Perennial, scandent. Leaves four-fold, long-petioled; cordate, 
cate, from five to seven-nerved, hispid. Corol flat, five-parted, pen- 
fandrous. ^ Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 177. 
— Sans. Klagt Muvjistha, faaea or faqay, Vikusa, fatit, 
Jingee, HAST. Sumunja, qe IRT or temm Kalume- 
Shika, HFT 4uft, Mundookuyurmee, utet or stat Bhun 
deeree or Bhundiree, AIT, —— SUIS CT, Yozunuvuilee. 
. Beng. } Munjit or Munjistha. 
A native of N epala, and other mountainous countries, north and 
north. east of Bengal. It grows in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 
but requires uncommon care to keep it alive — the rainy sea- 
son and has never blossomed there. 
Root perennial.— Stems woody, scandent climbing over trees and 
bushes. Branches cross-armed, from the axill of the large pair of 
leaves, jointed, swelling at the joints, hairy for a little distance be- 
low them, four-sided ; angles sharp and armed with small, recurved 
‘prickles; the exterior cortex, which forms these angles, drops off by 
age, leaving the longer branches and stemstound, and covered with — 
à soft reddish somewhat downy bark.— Leazes four-fold, petioled, 
"one of the pairs always much larger, viz. about double the size of the 
Other, and with longer petioles, all are beautifully cordate, entire, 
