J90 HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. Batubusa, 



A delicate, shrubby parasite, found in the Silhet dis- 

 trict, growing on Averrhoa Carambola. 



8. L, penfapetalus. R. 



Leaves opposite, from lanceolate, to ovate-cordate, 

 and obliquely alternate, smooth. Racemes axillary. 

 Flowers pentandrous. Petals five, with an enlarged 

 three-sided base. 



A large, very raraous, shrubby plant, found growing on 

 various trees in the forests of Silhet. Floivers red, ap- 

 pearing about the beginning of the rains in June, 



Branches and branchlets columnar, and quite smooth. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, from lanceolate to ovate-cor- 

 date, obliquely alternate, from the middle to the apex, en- 

 tire, smooth ; from three to four inches long, and about two 

 broad. Racemes axillary, solitary, or paired, straight, sim- 

 ple, often as long as the leaves, smooth. Flowers very nu- 

 merous, short-pedicelled, smooth, scattered, red. Bractes, 

 an obliquely-ovate one embraces 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 (hree-sided body, giving to the bottom of the corol, a 

 globular form, and meeting in the centre, leaving only a 

 small aperture for the style ; above tongue-shaped, and 

 recurved. Fikmewfs five, inserted in the petals. Anthers 

 ovate. Germ oblong, one-celled, containing one ovular 

 pendulous from the top of the cell. Style four-sided, joint- 

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

 larged. Berries oblong, smooth, of a greenish yellow, one- 

 seeded, &c. as in the genus. 



B AMBUS A. Schreb.gm. n. 607- 

 Calyx calycled, from two to three-valved, many- 

 flowered. Corol, glume two-valved. Style bifid. Seed 

 one. 



