68 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Siphonanthus, 
Ovieda mitis, sp. pl. ed. Willd, iii, 382. 
Found wild from Orissa northward ; where it grows to be — 
a tall, straight shrub. Flowering time the hot season, and 
again in October ; the seed ripens in the cool season. : 
Stem erect, derisighe, simple, or with very few, straight 
branches, more or less piped, according to the age of the — 
plant; bark smooth, greenish ; young shoots smooth, of a. — 
shining green, with a double groove or furrow to each leaf of 
the verticel, and piped in the old woody parts; height various. 
- In some parts of Bengal they are so long as to serve for rafters 
to cottages, and various other uses, Leaves verticelled, gene- 
rally from three to five-fuld, short-petioled, horizontal, lance- 
olate, entire, waved, above smooth, of a deep, shining green, 
below paler, from six to nine inches long. ~ loral leaves 
omens and ome Stipules none, bat in their plac 
»s from the axills of the exterior, “ae 
deave pipedandled; inv general solitary, erect, generally 
durbostleh ; the whole forming a large elegant panicle. Pe- 
duneles and pedicels roundish, smooth, zolinehae Bractes 
lanceolate, size various. /lowers, when they first open, white, 
gradually changing to cream colour. Calyx beneath, cam- 
panulate. Corol; tube exceedingly long, slender, bow-— 
ing. Border five-parted ; divisions oblong, nearly equal, 
reflected; the lower two more distant. Filaments four, in- 
serted within the mouth of the tube, projecting in a double 
curve for some time after the flower first ex pands, afterwards 
they become revolute. Anthers incumbent, &c, according 
to the position of the filaments, base two-parted. Germ and 
contents as in S. hastata, four-lobed. Sty/e longer than the 
stamens, at first projecting, or recurved, after impregnation — 
ascending, when the stamens become revoliite, Stigma 
acute, two-parted. Berries from one to four, conjoined, sit- 
ting on the enlarged, coloured calyx, singly the size ofa pea 
when ripe, of a dark bluish colour, Seeds one in each lobe’ 
of the berry; itseldom happens that all the four —— come 
to perfection, Embryo asin S, hastata, wre 
