554 pentandria monogynia. Hamiltonia. 



smooth, from three to four inches long-, and about two broad. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary, or paired, straight, simple, often as 

 long as the leaves, smooth. Flowers very numerous, short- 

 pedicelled, small, scattered, red. Bractes, an oval one em- 

 braces the base of the germ on the outside. Calyx superior, 

 rather small, sub-entire, smooth. Petals five, the base of each 

 swelled out into a fleshy, three-sided body, giving to the bot- 

 tom of the corol a globular form and meeting in the centre, 

 leaving only a small aperture for the style ; above tongue- 

 shaped, and recurved. Filaments five, inserted on the petals; 

 anthers obovate. Germ oblong, one-celled, and containing 

 one ovule, pendulous from the top of the cell. Style four-sid- 

 ed, jointed, or appearing so near the middle. Stigma a little 

 enlarged. Berries oblong, smooth, greenish-yellow, one- 

 seeded. 



HAMILTOMA. Roxb. 



Calyx five-cleft. Corol infundibuliform. Germ one-cell- 

 ed, five-seeded ; attachment of the ovula inferior. Stigma 

 five-cleft. Capsules inferior, one-celled, five-valved. Seeds 

 five, lattice-arilled. Embryo erect, and furnished with a 

 perisperm. 



1. H. suaveolens. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolar. Floicers in 

 terminal, umbelliform heads. 



This charming:, fragrant-flowered shrub was found wild on 

 the Rajm?<hal hills by Mr. William Roxburgh, jun. and by 

 him introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms during- the cold season. It is named after Mr. Wil- 

 liam Hamilton of the Wood-lands near Philadelphia in North 

 America, an eminent botanist, and the first who was at the 

 expense of erecting a conservatory in that country for the pre- 

 servation of the plants of a hot climate. To this gentleman 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta is under the greatest obliga- 



