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Hedyotis, |. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 363 
but chiefly the former, one, two, or three together, nearly as 
the leaves, straight and simple, densely clothed with ferru- 
ginous down. Pedicels short, two-flowered. Bractes, a small 
oval one at the base of each common peduncle, and one about 
the middle of each pedicel. Flowers numerous, crowded, 
small, yellowish green. Calyx none. Petals four, linearly 
spatulate, revolute. NVectarial scales four, rounded, smooth 
-and distinct, Filament short, inserted on the petals. Anthers 
’ rior, oblong, smooth, o 
linear. Germ oblong, very completely covered with long, 
reddish brown hairs, one-celled, and containing two ovula at- 
tached a little to one side of the bottom of the cell. Style fi- 
liter pone clavate, entire, 
7h LR. pola. |R : a 
Leaves iimeoniin sessile, cuneate-oblong, smooth, remotely 
serrulate, Racemes axillary, and below the leaves, seneth: 
Nectary a smooth four-toothed cup. Pais 
Joweea, the vernacular name in Silhet where iti is indigenous, 
and grows to be a large, stout timber tree. Flowering in June. 
Young shoots smooth, Leaves alternate,sub-sessile, cuncate- 
oblong, obtuse-pointed, remotely and acutely serrulate, 
smooth on both sides, about twelve inches long, by five or six 
broad. Racemes axillary, and below the leaves, one, two, or 
three together, about half the length of the leaves, smooth. 
Pedicels short, two-flowered, Bractes smooth, one at the base 
of each common pedicel, and one about the middle of each of 
the proper ones, Flotvers numerous, pale, greenish yellow, 
and fragrant. Calyx none. Petals four, linearly spauleme 
smooth, revolute. Nectary one-leaved, cup-shaped, obtusely 
dscdlled +! sovala twos: attached ta 
sidg;ahcthe coils oer filiform. Stigma clavateenties 
ote HEDYOTIS. ‘Shee gen. ON. 153. 
Cale fout-ported: Corol one-petalled, Finda giad i 
