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Ceratosfema. DECANDRIA’ MONOGYNIA. 413 
sile,narrow-lanceolar, serrate, acute, smooth, three inches 
long, and half aninch broad. Racemes axillary, the length 
of the leaves. Flowers numerous, drooping from the ex- 
_ terior side of the raceme, small, white, tinged with green. 
Bractes two, small, on each pedicel near the base. . Ca- 
lyx superior, five-toothed, permanent. The base is join- 
ed to the enlarged apex of the pedicel by a contracted 
articulation. Corol tubular. Tube considerably gibbous. 
Mouth five-toothed, and contracted. Filaments ten, in- 
serted on the base of the tube of the corol. Anthers li- 
near, ending in a linear, brown scariose flat arista, as 
long as the anthers themselves, the whole shut up with- 
in the corol. Germ inferior, five-celled, with two ver- 
tical rows of ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style 
the length of the corol. Stigma five-lobed. Berries inferi- 
or, globular, succulent, the size of a small pea, smooth, 
of a greenish-yellow when ripe, five-celled. Seeds many 
in each cell, oblong, rugose. Perisperm soft, and white, 
Embryo straight, cylindric, green, nearly as long as the 
perisperm. Cotyledons oblong. — Radicle cylindric, the 
length of the cotyledons, centripetal. 
2. C. variegata, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, entire. Racemes axillary, 
few-flowered, drooping. . ir 
Beng. Jalamoot- iy ordi : 
- A stout shrubby plant, a native ia mountain pe 
near Chittagong, Silhet, and on the Garrow hills, where it 
blossoms during the cool season, when its numerous, 
most beautiful, large, variegated, rosy flowers are — 
ornamental ; the seed ripens in July. 
Branches thick, ligneous, and of a stunted appearance, 
covered with rough, ash-coloured bark. Young shoots 
Smooth, and coloured. Leaves alternately crowded about 
the ends of the branchlets, subsessile, lanceolar, entire, 
firm and smooth ; from five to six inches long, andone — 
