66 WIGHT'S ILLUSTRATIONS. 
lobed stigma. Capsule evalvular. Seeds lenticular, rough, 
brown, attached to the base of the capsules. 
A frequent species in tanks and pools of fresh water, flower- 
ing in the wet and cold seasons. 
Tas. CXXIII. Villarsia cristata. Fig. 1, Flower, laid ; 
open. Fig. 2, Pistil. Fig. 3, Capsule, cut open :—slightly^ 
magnified. 
[Tas. CXXIV.] 
EUGENIA ROXBURGHII; 
Pedicellis unifloris axillaribus lateralibus aggregatis aut sub- 
racemulosis folio multo brevioribus sub flore bibracteola- 
tis, foliis ovalibus subobtusis coriaceis impunctatis glabris, 
calycibus pedicellisque ferrugineo-pubescentibus. DC. 
(Tas. CX XIV.) 
Eugenia Roxburghii. De Cand. Prodr.v.3. p.211. Wall. Cat. 
n. 3621. 
E. bracteata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 264. 
Myrtus bracteata, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 969. 
Panah, Tamul. m 
A ramous, low-growing shrub; lower branches round, 2 ? 
rough, cinerous, brown above, a little cracked, the extreme — 
shoots and young foliage thickly clothed with rusty-coloured — 
silky down; leaves opposite, shortly petioled, elliptical, obtusely — 
acuminate, emarginate, entire, smooth, coriaceous, bright — 
shining green, and perforated with very small and numerous - 
pellucid points. Flowers pedicelled, axillary, white; pedicels 
solitary, about the length of the petiole, sometimes 2-flowered. — 
Bracteas two, very small, villous, near the top of the pedicel’ - : 
Calyx tubular, enclosing the germen, tubular portion globular 
limbcleft down tothe germen, segments unequal, obtuse, Corolla: — 
Petals four, between obovate and orbicular, early deciduous, — 
white. Stamens numerous, free, attached to a circular disk | 
at the bottom of the limb of the calyx. Pistil: Germen in- 
ferior, round, 2-celled; cells containing several ovules, all but | 
one of which shortly disappear. Style of the same length as — 
