Volkameria, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, ’ 59 
Berry (or capsule) four-lobed, four-partible, with a single 
seed in each. Embryo erect; without perisperm. 
1. V. infortunata, Roxb. 
Shrubby, Leaves ovate-cordate, serrulate, downy. Pa- 
nicles terminal, brachiate, Berry enclosed in the enlarged 
coloured calyx, four-lobed. 
Clerodendrum foliatum, &c. Burm, Zeyl. 66, t. 29. en 
tunatum, Willd. iii, 386. 
- Peragu. Rheed, Mal. ii, t. 25. 
Bhanti, or Bhantaca, in Sanscrit. 
| Hind, Bhant. 
A very pretty shrub wheels in flower, and Evi It is gene- 
rally found under the shade of large trees, in consequence of 
birds dropping the seeds there. Flowers in February and. 
March ; seed ripens in April. 
Siem erect, somewhat quadrangular. Branches few, op- 
posite, four-sided. Leaves opposite, petioled, remote, cor- 
date, slightly serrate, downy, very various in size, but in ge- 
neral large, in old plants mach narrower, even ovate lan- 
ceolate, Panicles terminal, large, cross-armed, coloured. 
Flowers wamerous, pretty large, white with a small tinge of 
red. Calyx increasing with the fruit, of a bright red; divisions 
lanceolate, waved, Corol, its five divisions are ranged in a ~ 
semicircular form on the upper side, Stamens nearly equal, 
ascending until fecundation is over, then declining. Style 
declined, until fecundation is over, then ascending. Berry 
a little depressed, somewhat four-lobed, lodged in the calyx, 
the divisions of which are now enlarged, of a conic shape, red 
and leathery, of the size of a small black cherry ; when ripe, 
of the sane smooth, shining, black colour. Seeds four in 
the complete berries, but it is seldom they all come to per- 
fection, convex and wrinkled on the outside. a anime 
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