522 pent.andria MONOGYNiA. Rondeletia. 



incumbent. Germ inferior, roundish, two-celled, each con- 

 taining many ovula attached to an elevated receptacle on the 

 centre of the partition. Style rather longer than the rube of 

 the corol. Stigma of two, large, sub-rotund, spreading lobes. 

 Capsules minute, round, two-celled, two-valved, opening 

 across the apex. Seeds very minute, number, shape, &c. 

 uncertain, as they scarcely ever come to their full size. 



2. K. Unctoiia. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolar, smooth. 

 Stipules triangular, cuspidate. Panicles terminal, decus- 

 sate. Flowers tern. 



Beny. Toola-lodh. 



A small tree, of about ten or twelve feet in height; a na- 

 tive of Burdwan and Midnapore, in Bengal, where it blos- 

 soms in January and February ; the seeds ripen in May. 



Trunk straight, rather short, about as thick as a man's leg. 

 Bark covered with a dark brown, slightly crooked, spon- 

 gy lamina ; inwardly fibrous, yellowish, and astringent. 

 Branchlets opposite ; young shoots four-sided, and densely 

 clothed with short, ferruginous hairs. Leaves opposite, rare- 

 ly tern, petioled, from oblong to lanceolar, entire, smooth 

 above, a few hairs, particularly on the nerve and veins un- 

 derneath ; from four to six inches long, and from one to two 

 and half broad. Petioles short, and somewhat winged, aris- 

 ing from the decurrency of the leaves, hairy. Stipules trian- 

 gular, with ensiform apices, hairy on both sides. Panicles 

 terminal, large, composed of many, opposite, compound, four- 

 sided, hairy branches and branchlets. Bractes numerous, 

 hairy ; those of the ultimate divisions of the panicle ensiform, 

 with a hastate base, and embracing three flowers; besides 

 which each flower is furnished with a small proper braete. 

 Flowers very numerous, small, White, sub-sessile, fascicled, 

 and on the extremities of the ramifications, always in oppo- 

 site fascicles of three. Calyx five-toothed, hairy, permanent. 

 Corol one-petalled. Tube slender, many times longer than 



