690 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Ricimus. 
lena Cynthia,) are fed. See Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, vol. vii. p. 42. 
2, R. mappa. Linn, sp. pl. 1430. 
Dioecous. Leaves peltate, cordate, entire,acute. Spikes 
panicled, 
Acalypha Mappa. Willd. iv. 526. 
Folium Mappa. Rumph, Amb. iii. t. 108. 
One plant of this, a handsome small tree, with hitherto 
male blossoms, sprung up amongst some plants from Am- 
boyna, introduced into the Botanic garden in 1798, where it 
flowers in July. 
Trunk straight and perfectly erect, Bark and large 
__ branches, smooth and ash-coloured. Branches tending to be 
verticelled, ascending and spreading. Branchlets round, 
smooth, and glaucouse Height of the tree, now eleven years 
old, thirty-five feet. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, pel- 
tate, margins slightly waved, smooth on both sides, but very 
paler-coloured underneath, from numerous most minute, 
whitish dots. There are generally two, or three lanceolate 
smooth glands in as many of the smallest superior nerves ; 
veins numerous, from six to twenty-four inches long, and near~ 
ly of the same breadth. Pedioles nearly as long as the leaves, 
round, smooth, glaucous, Stipules cordate, reniform, acute, 
glaucous. Panicles of male flowers, axillary, erect, ramifi- 
cation alternate, Bractes alternate, sessile, cordate, concave, 
dentate, ciliate, many-flowered. Flowers numerous, very 
small, pale green. Calyx two-leaved, or deeply two-part: 
ed, reflexed, _Corol none. 
a R. dicoceus. Roxb. 
Arboreous. Leaves cordate, often lobate, repand-serrate. 
Racemes terminal, panicled, Capsules smooth, dicoccous. 
_ Folium calcosum. Rumph, Amb. iv, p. 129, t. 64. 
Some plants were received into the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta from Amboyna in 1%. Now, ia 1808 they have ge B 
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