384 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIAS. — Rubia, 
acute,. pointed, generally five or seven-nerved, though in the largest 
there are sometimes nine, and in the smallest three, or even sometimes 
obliterated; these nerves are armed with small recurved prickles, like 
those on the angles of the braucllets ; both sides channelled.—Pa- 
nicles terminal, oblong, composed of numerous, opposite, sinall, sub. 
globuiar, trichotomous panicles from the axill of the floral leaves. 
—FPeduncles and pedicels four-sided, smooth.— Bractes opposite, 
sessile, long, cordaté.— Flowers numerous, minute.— Calyx, if any, 
so minute as not to be visible.— Coro! flat, five-parted ; divisions 
lanceolate, acute, with points inflected.—Siamens five, shorter than 
the corol.— Germ beneath, twin. Style scarcely any, stigma large, 
two-cleft. — Berries two, or one; the second not always coming 
to maturity, globular, size of a small grain of pepper, smooth.— 
Seed single, round, smooth, with a deep pit on one side. — 
Obs. It differs from R. cordifolia in being pentandrous.* | The 
roots, stems, and juges branches are used to dye red with, - 
2. T alata. Wall. 
Leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, petioled, quatern, very scabrous. 
Stem and br anches four-winged prickly. Flowers pentandrous, hispid 
in trichotomous, „elongated, straight, axillary, and terminal corymbs. 
A native of Nepala, from whence Mr. Gardner sent me speci- 
mens. It blossoms in June. 
Root red.— Stein several feet long, apparently yig strong, = 
gether with the opposite or verticilled branches four- ordered, and 
four-winged, the w ings beset with short, recurved prickles, other wise 
pretty smooth ; ; joints remote.— Leaves spreadinz, quatern, unequal, 
from an inch to an inch and a half long, much shorter than their ine 
terstices, rough on both sides, especially along their margins, fur- 
* Istrongly suspect that R. eordifoli.t, Linn. Mant. is this very plant, especially a$ 
Lamarck observes in his description that the flowers are four and five-cleft; Encyc: 
Bot. ii. 606. The plants agree in every respeét. In the numerons specimens which 
have been sent to me by Mr. Gardner from Gossain- Than and Katmandu, and bf 
Sir Robert Colquhoun from Almora I have sine found the flowers pentandr out. 
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