554 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Hamiltonia, 
smooth, from three to four inches long, and about two broad. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, or paired, straight, simple, often as" 
long as the leaves, smooth. Flowers very numerous, short- 
pedicelled, small, scattered, red. Bractes, an oval one em- 
braces the base of the germ on the outside. Calyx superior, 
rather small, sub-entire, smooth. Petals five, the base of each 
swelled out intoa fleshy, three-sided body, giving to:the bot-— 
tom of the corol a globular form and meeting in the centre, 
leaving only a small aperture for the style; above tongue- 
shaped, and recurved. Filaments five, inserted on the petals ; 
anthers obovate. Germ oblong, one-celled, and containing 
one ovule, pendulous from the top of the cell. Style four-sid- 
ed, jointed, or appearing so near the middle. Stigma a little 
enlarged. Berries oblong, smooth, greenish-yellow, one- _ 
seeded. Grea o eg ee sari tS ob! 
HAMILTONIA. Sake 
Calyx five-cleft, Corol infundibuliform. Germ cnedelll 
ed, five-seeded ; attachment of the ovula inferior. Stigma — 
five-cleft. Capsules inferior, one-celled, five-valved. » Seeds. 
five, lattice-arilled. Embryo erect, and furnished with, a 
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Shrabby. Leaves opposite, bonnes Sines ined 
terminal, umbelliform heads. — nLShe leew ie aghast sae tri: 
This charming, ee shrub was found. wild on— 
the Rajmuhal hills by Mr. William Roxburgh, jun. and by. 
him introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it — 
blossoms during the cold season, It is named after Mr. Wil-.. 
liam Hamilton of the Wood-lands near Philadelphia in North 
America, an eminent botanist, and the first who was at'the 
expense of erecting a conservatory in that country for the pre- 
servation of oe a hot climate. ns: 
