176 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA,. Sida. 
Kurundoti. Rheed, Mal. x, t. 18. ‘ 
Silagurium vulgare. Rumph, Amb, vi. t. 19, 
A native of Bengal and the Moluccas, Flowers in the cool 
season, in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
14. 8S, rhomboidea, Roxb. 
-Shrubby, erect, ramous. Leaves short-petioled, narrow- 
rhomboidal, serrate, three-nerved, villous. Stipules setace- 
ous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the —— 
one-flowered, Capsules ten, without beak. 
Hind, and Beng. Sufet or Shwet Bariala, or Berela. 
A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold 
season, The flowers expand at noon, 7 
Stem erect, ligneous. Branches ascending ; young shoots 
a little mealy, height of the whole plant frou three to six 
feet. Leaves alternate, short-petioled ; ; the inferior in young 
plants rhomboidal ; the superior amongst the flowers lanceo- 
late, all are serrate, more or less three-nerved and villous, 
particularly underneath, and there hoary also; size very 
various, Stipules longer than the petioles, bristle-shaped. 
Pedunc'es axillary, solitary, slender, erect, shorter than the 
leaves, one-flowered ; the smaller branchlets in the axills of 
the leaves, with their flowers often give the appearance of two 
or more flowers from the same axill, Coro/ sub-rotate, small, 
pale yellow. Petals very obliquely and deeply retuse. 
Stamens numerous from the apex of their tube. Style about 
ten-cleft. Capsules (or ari/s) generally ten, forming, before 
ripe, a depressed, somewhat timbilicated orb, and nearly co- 
vered by | the incurved divisions of the calyx singly ; when 
ripe, gaping at the top, and having then the appearance of 
being two-horned. Seed solitary. It differs from rhomb prone 
(Liun.) in the arils nee Fe no ‘horns. is 
15. S. rhombifolia. Willd, iii. 740, 8 
Shrubby, coloured. Leaves short-petioled, rhomb-Janceo- 
ate, serrate, soft underneath, Peduneles solitary, pearly a8 
