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386 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Txora. 
A middle sized shrub, common on road sides, hedges, un- 
cultivated lands, &c. where there is a good soil. 
Branches cross-armed, ascending. Bark ash-coloured. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, pointed, always § 
smooth or both sides, which ana the chief difference be-. 
tween this and the next species; from four to six inches long, 
and two, on two and a half broad. Stipules as in the aS | 
species, Corymbs compound, terminal, large, nearly level- 
topped, cross armed, Peduncles and pedicels round, and 
smooth, Bractes as in the former species. Flowers white, 
somewhat fragrant. Calyz, divisions obtuse. Style twice the 
length of the tube. Stigma clubbed, Bary globular, size of 
a ss one or or two-seeded, 
14, I, tomentosa. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves oblong, ventricose, entire, tomentose, 
Panicles lax, sub-globular, tomentose ; style twice the length 
of the corol. Stigma entire. Berries globular, 
Beng. Jooi, | pieces 
Teling. Nam-papoota. 
A large shrub, native of the same places, butnot so common. is 
as the last described. Flowers the beginning of the hot season, . 
_ Branches cross-armed, _ascending. _ Bark ash-coloured, 
Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, pointed, entire, both sides. 
very downy, from four to eight inches long, : and from three 
to five broad. Stipules as in the former species, Panicles ter-_ +s 
minal, globular, cross-armed, divisions always three-forked. 
els round, downy. Bractes as in the -for- 
Peduncles and p 
mer species, Flowers numerous, white, faintly fragrant. bie 
twice the length of the tube, Stigma clubbed. Berry gener- 
ally two seeded. 
Obs. In all the foregoing species the berries are [eg 
ed, though it often happens that but one comes to perfection, : 
I never met with any that had three or four. I do not find 
that the inhabitants of these pares, make use 2 of fhe es 5 eK ral 
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