26 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNiA. TahemcBmontana. 



nic Garden at Calcutta, where it flowers during the rainy- 

 season ; but has not yet perfected its seeds in Bengal. 



Stem erect, slender, round, and smooth, soon dividing 

 into a few, slender, dichotomous branches, the whole 

 heiiiht rather under three feet. Leaves opposite, short- 

 petioled, broad-lanceolate, taper, obtuse pointed ;mrtrgfins 

 waved, but entire, smooth on both sides, length from two 

 to six inches and the breadth from one to two. Peduncles 

 generally in pairs from the forks of the branches, few- 

 flowered. Flowers pedicelled, small, white. Pedicells as 

 long as the peduncles. Br«c/es few and small. Calyx 

 five-toothed. Dn^mons erect, ensiform. Coro/ infundibi- 

 liform; tube widest close to the mouth, and there the 

 sessile anthers are lodged. Border of five falcate, linear, 

 obtuse segments, which are shorter than the tube. Germ 

 two-lobed ; s^?/?e of two, coalesced portions, and sufficient- 

 ly long to elevate the stigma even with the anthers. 



T. recurva. R. 



Shrubby, dichotomous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, smooth. 

 Peduncles in pairs at the forks, recurved, corymbiforra. 

 Calyxes five-cleft. Anthers in the mouth of the clavate 

 tube. 



A native of Chittagong from whence it \^as sent to the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta by Dr. Buchanan, where it 

 blossoms in March and April. 



Trunk tolerably straight, but short, soon dividing into 

 several, dichotomous branches. Bark smooth. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, obtuse-point- 

 ed ; smooth on both sides ; length from two to six inches. 

 Peduncles in pairs from the divisions of the branchlets, 

 short, recurved, each ending in a dichotomous corymb 

 of many, long, white, drooping flowers. Bracfes lanceo- 

 late. Calyx five-cleft to very near the base ; divisions li- 

 near, unequal, smooth. Corol ; fufte many times longer 

 than the calyx, widened at the mouth, where the an- 



