Webera. pentandria monogynia. 697 



Shrubby. Leaves from lanceolar to oblong, glossy. Co- 

 rymbs terminal. Calyx five-parted, and nearly as long- as 

 the tube of the corol. Capsules few-seeded. 



Rondeletia asiatica. Linn, svppl. 244. 



Cupi. Rheed. Mai. ii. 37. t. 23. 



Beng. K?mkra. 



A pretty large, erect, unarmed, rainous shrub, common on 

 most parts of the Coromandel coast. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, broad- lanceolar, margins reflex- 

 ed, smooth, deep shining green, with hairy glands in the axills 

 of the large veins ; six or seven inches long, and about two 

 and a half broad. Stipules inlerfoliaceous, as in the other spe- 

 cies. Corymbs terminal, large, divided by three. Flowers 

 small, very numerous, white, faintly fragrant. Calyx, corol, 

 aad stamens as in the genus. Germ turbinate, two-celled, 

 with from six to nine ovula in each, attached to the thickened 

 centre of the partition. Berry the size of a large pea, when 

 ripe smooth, shining black, two-celled. Seeds from four to 

 eight in each cell. Embryo furnished with a perisperm, and 

 centripetal radicle. 



The extremities of the young shoots are often found cover- 

 ed with a white resinous matter. A substance of the same 

 nature and appearance is to be found on the germs of most of 

 the species of Gardenia known to me. 



2. W. macrophylla. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-lanceolar. Panicle terminal. Co- 

 rols with a long slender tube. Berries many seeded. 



A shrubby species, found by Mr. W. Roxburgh, indigen- 

 ous on Prince of Wales' Island. 



Youn (f shoots somewhat villous. Leaves opposite, short- 

 petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate; from six to 

 eighteen inches long, and from four to five broad. Stip>tles 

 anoular, &c. as in the Rubtacea of Jussieu. Panicles termi- 

 nal, very large, brachiate, villous. Bractes subulate, villous. 

 Flowers large, white. Calyx divided into five, short, acute, 



