Rondeletia. pentandria monogynia. 521 



acuminate. Stipules two-parted. PedunCles axillary, one- 

 flowered. 



A stout scandent shrub ; supported by strong, hairy, axil- 

 lary, spiral hooks; a native of the forests of Chittagong, 

 where it flowers in February and March. 



RONDELETIA. Schreb. gen. N. 296*. 

 Calyx five-toothed. CVo/infundibuliform. Germ inferi- 

 or, two-celled ; cells many-seeded ; attachment interior. S%- 

 ma two-cleft. Capsule two-celled, two-valved. Seeds many. 



1. R. paniculala. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong-ventricose, taper- 

 ing at both ends, smooth. Stipules round, recur vate. Pani- 

 cles terminal, sub-brachiate. 



A native of the Malay Islands. It was brought from Am- 

 boyna by Captain Anderson, to the Botanic garden at Cal- 

 cutta, where it blossoms in March, April, May and June. 



Trunk straight. Branches decussate. Bark smooth, brown 

 on the older parts ; on the younger green. Leaves opposite, 

 sub-sessile, oblong-ventricose, tapering at both ends, above 

 smooth, underneath somewhat villous, entire, from four to ten 

 inches long, and from two to four or five broad. Stipules 

 within the petioles, round-reniform, recurved, smooth. Pani- 

 cles terminal, and from the exterior axills ; the former brachi- 

 ate, the latter have the whole of their ramifications alternate ; 

 they are all round and villous. Flowers minute, pure white, 

 very numerous, sessile, or short-pedicelled, on the short, al- 

 ternate, ultimate, ramifications of the panicle. Bractes of 

 the ramifications large, and of various forms ; those of the 

 flowers, several, minute ; all are villous. Calyx villous; seg- 

 ments five, roundish. Corol ; tube perfectly cylindric ; bor- 

 der of five, ovate, revolute segments, which are much shorter 

 than the tube. Filaments short, inserted into the bottom 

 of the fissures at the border of the corol. Anthers ovate, 



