374 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Rubia, 
the mouth of its tube, opposite to its fissures. Anthers pur- 
ple. Germ oblong. Style length of the corol. Stigma of two 
round lobes. Pericarp when ripe a dry berry, of a lanceo- 
late shape, crowned with the remaining calyx, two-celled, 
with a single linear oblong seed in each, as detailed and 
figured by: that very eminent and most accurate botanist 
Geertner, | 
RUBIA. Schreb. gen. N. 164. 
- Calyzx scarcely any. Corol one-petalled, from fons to five- 
pevted . Berries inferior, twin, Seeds solitary. Embryo 
erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 
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1. R. Manjista, R, 
Perennial, scandent. Leaves four-fold, long-petioled, cor- 
date, acute, from five to seven-neryed, hispid, Corol flat, 
five-parted, pentandrous, Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 177, — 
Sans. Munjistha, Vikusa, Jigee, Sumunja, Kalumeshika, 
Mundooku urnee, Bhundeeree or Bhundiree, Bhundee, Yo- 
zunuvullee. 
Beng. Munjit or Munjistha. tts 
A native of Nepal, and other mountainous countries, soit 
and north-east of Bengal. It grows in the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, but requires uncommon care to keep it. alive 
during the:rainy sendom ¢uid'Thns never: blomoined there. - 
- Root | al. Stems woody, scandent, ic over 
trees and bushes. “Branches cross-armed, from the axill of 
the large pair of leaves, jointed, swelling at the joints, hairy _ 
for a little distance below them, four-sided; angles sharp and 
armed with small, recurved prickles; the exterior cortex, 
which forms these angles, drops off by age, leaving the long=: 
er branches and stems round, and covered witha soft reddish : 
somewhat downy bark. Leaves four-fold, petioled, one of. 
the pairs always much larger, viz. about double the size iat 
the ees all are cert cordate, | 
