190 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bambusa, 
A delicate, shrubby parasite, found in the Silhet dis< 
trict, growing on Averrhoa Carambola. 
8. L. pentapetalus. R. 
Leaves opposite, from lanceolate, to ovate-cordate, 
and obliquely alternate, smooth. Racemes axillary. 
Flowers pentandrous. Petals five, with an enlarged 
three-sided base. 
A large, very ramous, shrubby plant, found growing on 
various trees in the forests of Silhet. Flowers red, ap- 
pearing about the beginning of the rains in June, 
Branches and branchlets columnar, and quite smooth. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, from lanceolate to ovate-cor- 
date, obliquely alternate, from the middle to the apex, en- 
tire, smooth; from three to four inches long, and about two 
broad. Racemes axillary, solitary, or paired, straight, sim- 
ple, often as long as the leaves, smooth. Flowers very nu- 
merous, short-pedicelled, smooth, scattered, red. Bractes, 
an obliquely-ovate one embraces the base of the germ on 
the outside. Calyx superior, rather small, sub-entire,- 
smooth. Petals five, the base of each swelled out into a 
fleshy three-sided body, giving to the bottom of the corol,a 
globular form, and meeting in the centre, leaving only a 
small aperture for the style; above tongue-shaped, and 
recurved. Filaments five, inserted in the petals. Anthers 
ovate. Germ oblong, one-celled, containing one ovula, 
pendulous from the top of the cell. Style four-sided, joint- 
ed, or appearing so, near the middle. Stigma a little en-— 
larged. Berries oblong, smooth, of a greenish dade one- 
seeded, &c. as in the eae ar “ 
BAMBUSA. Schreb.gen.n-60]. 
Calyx calycled, from two to three-valved, many- 
flowered. Corol, glume two-valved. Style bifid. Seed. 
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