Rotilera. DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA, 827 
which is at first ferruginous, but by age gets hoary. Leaves 
alternate, long-petioled, cordate, tending to be peltate in 
young plants, rarely lobate, generally a little repand, acumi- 
nate, when young somewhat ferruginous, when full-grown 
smooth, of a deep green above, and hoary underneath, with two 
flat oblong glands at the base, from six to twelve inches long, 
and from four to eight broad. Stipules minute. Panicles 
terminal, male and_ female ones on distinct trees, composed of 
several simple branches, which in the male are much longer. 
MALE FLOWERS numerous, small, collected in small sessile 
heads over the branches of the panicles. FEMALE FLOWERS 
larger, and distinct. Calyx in both four or five-parted, 
Corolnone. Filaments in the male very numerous, Anthers 
twin, in the female none. Germ roundish, generally four- 
celled, each cell containing a single ovulum, attached to the 
top of the axis. Styles, or stigmas four, or one for each cell 
of the germ, spreading, brown and shaggy. Capsule of the 
size of a small gooseberry, a little flattened, hoary, and pa- 
_pillose, generally four-celled, four-valved. Seed solitary ; 
the exterior integuments smooth, of a’shining black, thick 
and hard. Perisperm and embryo as in the odes diuphorbiee- 
2, R. tinctoria. Tilde iv, 823. R. Corom, pl. vol. ii. No. 
168, 
Arboreous, Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, three-nerv- 
ed, with two glands at the base. Panicles axillary and ter- 
minal. Capsules tricoccous, covered with coloured farina, 
Sans. and Beng, Poonnag. 
Teling, Wusuntagundha or vusuntagundha, 
Ponnagam. Rheed, Mal. v, t. 21. 
A native of Coromandel. Flowers in the cold season. 
The red mealy powder, which covers the capsules is used 
by the natives to dye scarlet, and in eee the root is oud ; 
to dye red also. 
Compare with Croton coccineum. Willd, iv. 544, 
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