Webera, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 697 
Shrubby. Leaves from lanceolar to oblong, glossy. Co- 
rymbs terminal. Calyx five-parted, and nearly as long as 
the tube of the corol. Capsules few-seeded. 
Rondeletia asiatiea, Linn. suppl. 244. 
Cupi. Rheed, Mal. ii, 37, t, 23. 
Beng. Kunkra. 
A pretty large, erect, unarmed, ramous shrub, common on 
most parts of the Coromandel coast. : 
: Leaves opposite, petioled, broad-lanceolar, margins reflex- 
_ ed, smooth, deep shining g green, with hairy glands in the axills 
of the large veins; six or seven inches long, aud about two 
and a half broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, as in the other spe- 
cies, Corymbs terminal, large, divided by three. Flowers 
small, very numerous, white, faintly fragrant. Calya, corol, 
and stamens as in the genus. Germ turbinate, two-celled, 
with from six to nine ovuda in each, attached to the thickened 
centre of the partition. Berry the size of a large pea, when 
ripe smooth, shining black, two-celled. Seeds from four to 
eight in each cell, Embryo furnished with a perisperm, and 
centripetal radicle, 
The extremities of the young shoots are afin found cover- 
ed with a white resinous matter. A substance of the same 
nature and appearance is to be found on the — of most of 
- the Pao of Gardenia known to me. 
2. W. macrophylla. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves ited: lanceolar. Panicle terminal. Co- 
rols with a long slender tube, Berries many seeded. 
os sbrubby species, found by Mr. W, Roxburgh, aaigee: 
ous on Prince of Wales’ Island, fs 
Young shoots somewhat villous. Leaves opposite, short- 
petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate; from six to 
eighteen inches long, and from four to five boui: Stipules 
angular, &e. as in the Rubiacea of Jussieu. Panicles termi- 
nal, very large, brachiate, villous. Bractes subulate, villous. 
Fi —— large, white, Calyx divided into five, short, acute, 
