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its inside, opposite to the fissures thereof; at the base 
they are formed into a tube opening on the inside, and. 
there bearded ; apex two-lobed, and ornamented with, 
generally, five short filaments. Stamens just twice as 
many as there are petals in the corol, two-being found 
enclosed within each of them, Filaments half the length 
of the petals, unequal, the interior one of the pair being 
shorter. Anthers linear, erect, with their apices sharp 
and incuryed. Germ inferior, turbinate, three or four- 
celled, with two ovula in each. Style the length of the sta- 
mens, Stigma slightly three or four pointed. Pericarp 
no other than the permanent calyx, in which the plumu- 
la, or ascending part of the embryo on the base of the 
seed is lodged. Seeds solitary, subcylindric, tapering 
equally towards each end, pendulous; the plumula, or 
ascending part of the future plant is lodged on the base,* 
while from its apex the rostel/um, or root issues. 
The wood is of a yellowish colour, hard and durable ; 
its chief use is for burning, and for posts with which to 
construct the houses of the natives. 
8. R. parviflora. R. 
Leaves ventricose-oblong. Peduncles axillary, many- 
flowered ; calyx eight-cleft. Stamina eight pair, embrac- 
ed by the eight petals. Fruit subcylindric. 
A small, very ramous, smooth, glossy tree, a antinns of 7 
the salt, and brackish creeks, &c. of the Delta of the 
Ganges. Flowering time December. Leaves opposite, 
Crowded about the ends of the smooth twigs, short-pe- 
tioled, from broad-lanceolar to ventricose-oblong, entire, 
firm and polished ; from four to five inches long, and from 
One to two broad. Stipules large, within the leaves, &c, 
asin the Fici. Peduncles axillary, once or twice tricho- 
tomous, smooth. Bractessmall. Flowers small, one on : 
each division of the peduncles. Calyx eight-cleft ; seg- 
ments acute. Petals eight, considerably shorter than the — 
