526 pentandria moxoovnta. Randid. 



sessile, about ono-lia!f or one-third tbe length of tlir loaves. 

 JFloirers sessile, numerous,small, pale greenish white. Bractes 

 one-flowered. Calyx four-toothed, permanent. Corn/ fun- 

 nel shaped; border four-parted; month of the tube villous. 

 Filaments short. Anthers linear, half hid in (lie tube of the 

 corol. Stigma bifid. Germ inferior, two-celled, with seve- 

 ral ovula in each, attached to the thickened centre of the par- 

 tition. Berry round, smooth, shining, straw-coloured, size 

 of a pea, two-celled. Seeds two, three or four in each cell, 

 attached to the upper half of the partition ; shape very various. 

 Integument fibrous. Perisperm cartilaginous. Embryo in- 

 verse, half the length of the perisperm. Cotyledons linear. 

 Radicle oblong, superior. 



2. R. striata. R. 



Shrubby, straight. Leaves opposite, oblong", pointed. Flow- 

 ers axillary, sessile. 



A native of the mountains north of Bengal. In the Botanic 

 garden its flowering- time is the cold season. 



Stems several, straight, ornamented with numerous, cross- 

 armed, spreading- branches, down to the root; height of the 

 whole from five to ten feet. Leaves opposite, very short-pe- 

 tioled, spreading, oblong - , or broad-lanceolate, pointed, mar- 

 gins entire, but waved a little ; smooth on both sides. Stipu- 

 les connecting the petioles, on their inside, and tapering to a 

 daggered point, pressing close upon the branchlet. Floicers 

 small, white, collected in dense, globular, sessile fascicles, in 

 the axills of the leaves. Bractes two or three, like the calyx, 

 and embracing the base of the germ. Calyx five-parted ; di- 

 visions acute, permanent. Corol contorted, inside of the short 

 tube hairy. Filaments none. Anthers affixed a little below 

 their apices within the tube, and in the fissures of the divi- 

 sions of the border of the corol. Germ inferior, two-celled, 

 with several seeds in each. Style short. Stir/ma large, ob- 

 long, hairy, two cleft, but its lobes do not separate. Berry 

 globular, size of a pea, smooth, two-celled. Seeds several in 



