522 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Rondeletia. 
incumbent, Germ inferior, roundish, two-celled, each con- 
taining many ovula attached to an elevated receptacle on the 
centre of the partition. Séy/e rather longer than the tube of 
the corol. Stigma of two, large, sub-rotund, spreading lobes. 
Capsules minute, round, two-celled, two-valved, opening 
across the apex. Seeds very minute, number, shape, &e. 
uncertain, as they scarcely ever come to their full size, 
2. R. tinctoria, R. 
_ Arboreous. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolar, smooth. 
Stipules triangular, cuspidate. Panicles terminal, decus- 
sate. Flowers tern. 
Beng. Toola-lodh. | . 
A small tree, of about ten or twelve feet in height; a ‘na- 
five of Burdwan and Midnapore, in Bengal, where it blos- 
soms in January and February ; the seeds ripen in May. 
Trunk straight, rather short, about as thick asa man’s leg. 
Bark covered with a dark brown, slightly crooked, spon- 
gy lamina; inwardly fibrous, yellowish, ‘and astringent. 
Branchlets opposite ; young shoots four-sided, and densely 
clothed with short, ferruginous hairs, Leaves opposite, rare- 
ly tern, petioled, from oblong to lanceolar, entire, smooth 
above, a few hairs, particularly on the nerve and veins un- 
derneath ; from four to six inches long, and from one to two 
and half broad. Petioles short, and somewhat winged, aris- 
== from the Sasa of the leaves, hairy. Stipules trian- 
: i apices, hairy on both sides. Panicles 
eae age ‘composed of many, opposite, compound, four- 
sided, hairy branches and branchlets. Bractes numerous, 
hairy ; those of the ultimate divisions of the panicle ensiform, 
with a hastate base, and embracing’ three flowers; besides 
which each flower is furnished with a small proper bracte. 
Flowers very numerous, small, white, sub-sessile, fascicled, 
nd on ise extremities of the rainifications; — in Aa need 
