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828 DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA. Rotilera, 
6. R. peltata, R. 
Arboreous, Leaves long-petioled, cordate, peltate, acu- 
minate, downy. Racemes terminal, and lateral, solitary, Cap- 
sules covered with villous filaments. 
Seergoollua, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 
to be a middling sized tree, It flowers in April and May, and 
the seed ripens in August. 
Young shoots clothed with much pretty long, soft, light gray, 
diverging pubescence. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, sub- 
cordate, peltate, long ensiform-pointed, three-nerved, downy 
on both sides; from four to eight inches long, by three to six 
broad, Stipules subulate, villous. Sacemes terminal, and la- 
teral, solitary, simple, longer than the leaves, male and female 
alike in form and size, but on different trees. Calyx in both 
four or five-cleft; segments lanceolate, downy. Coro/none, Sta- 
mina in the male numerous ; in the female none. Germ three- 
lobed, filamentose, three-celled ; ovuda solitary, attached to the 
middle of the axis, Styles three-fourths three-cleft, segments 
hairy. Stigmas simple. Capsules depressed, three-lobed, of. 
the size of asmall gooseberry, covered with pretty long, hairy 
filaments, three-celled, six-valved, opening from the apex. 
Seed solitary, globular, of the size of a grain of black pepper. 
Integuments single, hard, pretty thick, but brittle, of a chesnut- 
brown colour, and highly polished, Perisperm conform to the 
seed, white, hard and waxy. Embryo transverse. Cotyledons 
two, oval, three-nerved. adicle on the outside, opposite to 
the umbilicus, or attachment of the seed to the upper end 
of the axis, This position differs from every other of this or- 
der, (Euphorbia ) of Jussieu, which [ have yet examined, 
4, R, ferruginea. R, 
- Arboreous, Leaves alternate, from cordate to deeply three- 
lobed, clothed with ferruginous, stellate pubescence under- 
neath, Panicles terminal. Capsules tricoccous, villous. 
. panera minor, a wears te ili, pe 190, 
