Paederia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 685 
hairy; segments conic, permanent. Corol fannel-shaped. 
Tube the length of the botder, widening to the mouth, a lit- 
tle hairy on the outside. Border of five, contorted, oblique- 
ly oblong segments. Filaments searcely any. Anthers five, 
linear, erect, attached below the middle to the mouth of the 
tube of the corol, and their lower ends in it, Germ hairy, 
two-celled, with one ovu/wm in each, attached to the partition 
a little above its middle. Style the length of the tube of the 
corol. Stigma simple, linear-clavate, longer than the stami- 
na. Berry inferior, size and colour ofa black currant, when 
dry striated, crowned with the remaining calyx, two-celled. 
Seeds solitary, the outside convex ; on the inside a deep pit 
filled with the spongy receptacle. Integument single, thin, 
Perisperm conform to the seed, hard, dull white. Ambryo 
lodged in the middle of the convexity of the seed. © Cotyle- 
dons reniform. Radicle inferior. 
3. P. areatil R. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves HAG dokiile, broad-lanceolar, en- 
tire, Panicles in the terminal forks of the branchlets, erect. 
Stamina protruded. 
An erect, shrubby plant; a native of the Silhet district, It 
flowers in May and June; and the seeds ripen about the pod 
of the rainy and begcliiagr of the cold season. 
Stem short, erect. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 
round, smooth, and dichotomous. Leaves opposite, sub-ses- 
sile, broad-lanceolar, entire, smooth, ribbed with parallel 
veins underneath ; from three to four inches long, by one.and 
a half broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, as in other rubiacee. 
Panicles solitary in the fork of the branchlets, often longer 
than the leaves; thin, being composed of a few small, short, 
opposite ramifications. Flowers small, numerous, white, ino- 
dorous. Calyx superior, short, slightly five-toothed. Corol 
with a short tube which is woolly on the inside; segments of 
the border oblong. Filaments short, inserted on the tube of 
the corol, Anthers oval, scarcely exsert. am turbinate, 
