526 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA: Randia, 
sessile, about one-half or one-third the length of the leaves, 
Flowers sessile, numerous,small, pale greenish white. Bractes 
one-flowered. Calyx four-toothed, permanent. Coral fun- 
nel-shaped ; border four-parted; mouth of the.tube villous, 
Filaments short, .Anthers linear, balf hid in the tube of the 
corol, Stigma bifid. Germ inferior, two-celled, with seve- . 
ral ovula in each, attached to the thickened centre of the par- 
tition. Berry round, smooth, shining, straw-coloured, size 
of a pea, two-celled, Seeds two, three or four in each cell, 
attached to the upper half of the partition ; shape very various. 
Integument fibrous, Perisperm cartilaginous. . Embryo in- 
verse, half the length of the — Cotyledons linear. 
Radicle oblong, superior, 
2. R. stricta. R. 
Shrubby, straight. Leaves opposite, obleng aieresie Flow- 
ers axillary, acdite, 
A native of the mountains north of Bengal. In the Botanic 
garden its flowering time is the cold season. 
Stems several, straight, ornamented with numerous, cross- 
armed, spreading branches, down to the root; height of the 
whole from five to ten feet. Leaves opposite, very short-pe- 
tioled, spreading, oblong, or broad-lanceolate, pointed, mar- 
gins entire, but waved a little ; smooth on both sides, Stipu- 
les connecting the petioles, on their inside, and tapering to a 
gseere ‘point; pressing: tee — the — — 
the axils of the leaves. Bractes two or pie Tikethe calyx, . 
and embracing the base of the germ. Calyx five-parted ; di- 
visions acute, permanent. Dori contorted, inside of the short 
tube hairy. Filaments none. Anthers affixed a little below 
their apices within the tube, and in the fissures of the divi 
sions of the border of the corol. Germ inferior, two-celled; 
: With severat — in | Style short. Stigma: ae 
