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pale yellow leaflet. Filaments eight, ascending oppo- 
site to the petals, very woolly near the base. Anthers 
oval. Germ superior, in some of the flowers minute, 
_ and abortive, in others hairy, and two-lobed, with one 
evula in each, attached to the lower, and inner angle of 
the cell.’ Style erect. Stigma of two revolute lobes. 
Berries two, when both come to perfection, which is not 
frequent, obovate, smooth, succulent ; when ripe, red, 
the size of a large pea, one-celled. Seed conform to the 
berry, and attached to the bottom of the cell. Integuments 
two ; exterior whitish yellow and thin ; interior membra- 
naceous. Perisperm none. Embryo conform to the 
seed, folded, | Cotyledons unequal, fleshy, sublanceolar. 
Radicle taper-pointed, a little curved, inferior. 
2.0. villosa. R. 
Shrubby, tomentose. Leaves ternate ; leaflets oblong, 
ventricose, remotely serrulate on the anterior margin. Ra- 
cemes axillary, and terminal, simple. Petals cuneiform, 
the whole of the inside woolly. 
A native of Chittagong. 
Young shoots flexuose, very villous. Leaves alter- 
nate, ternate. ~ Leaflets suboblong, ventricose, remotely 
Serrulate, upper surface scarcely hairy, but soft with 
brownish short hairs underneath; from six to eight — 
inches long and from four to five broad. Petioles long, 
round, and very villous. | Racemes axillary and ter- 
Minal, when in the axils, which is by far the most fre- 
quent, solitary, all are very hairy, generally shorter 
than the petioles. Flowers numerous, small, hairy, col- 
lected into little fascicles all over the raceme. Bractes su- 
‘bulate, very hairy, Calyx of two very equal pairs of 
°pposite, roundish, concave hairy leaflets. Petals four, 
Unilateral, cuneiform, very woolly over the whole of the 
inside, Nectary, a gland at the base of each petal < on 
the inside, and without the stamina, ent: eight, 
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