Sonielatio. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 521. 
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acuminate, Stipules frtepanions Peduneles <i one- 
flowered, 
A stout scandent shrub ; supported by ane. hairy, axil- 
lary, spiral hooks; a native of the forests of Chittagong, 
where it flowers i in February and March. 
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RONDELETIA. Schreb. gen. N. 296. 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol infundibuliform, Germ inferi- 
or, two-celled.; cel/s many-seeded ; attachment interior. . Stig- 
ma two-cleft, Capsule two-celled, two-valved. Seeds many. 
1. R. paniculata, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong-ventricose, taper- 
ing at both ends, smooth. Stipules round, recurvate. Pani- 
cles terminal, sub-brachiate. 
A native of the Malay Islands, . It was beoupire inn Am- 
boyna by Captain Anderson, to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, where it blossoms in March, April, May and June. 
Trunk straight, Branches decussate. Bark smooth, brown 
on the older parts; on the younger green. Leaves opposite, 
sub-sessile, oblong-ventricose, tapering at both ends, above 
smooth, underneath somewhat villous, entire, from four to ten 
inches long, and from two to four or five broad, Stipules 
within the petioles, round-reniform, recurved, smooth, Pani- 
cles terminal, and from the exterior axills ; the former brachi- 
ate, the latter have the whole of their ramifications alternate ; 
_they are all round and villous. Flowers minute, pure white, 
very numerous, sessile, or short-pedicelled, on the short, al- 
ternate, ultimate, ramifications of the panicle. Bractes of 
the ramifications large, and of various forms; those of the 
_ flowers, several, minute ; all are villous, Calyx villous; seg- 
ments five, roundish, Corol ; tube perfectly cylindric ; bor- 
der of five, ovate, revolute segments, which are much shorter 
than the tube. , Filaments short, inserted into the. bottom 
of the fissures at the border of the corol, .dnthers ovate, 
