Cerafostema. decandria monogynia. 413 



sile,narrow-lanceolar, serrate, acute, smooth, three inches 

 Ion?, and half an inch broad. Racemes axillary, the length 

 of the leaves. Flowers numerous, droopinoj from the ex- 

 terior side of the raceme, small, white, tinged with green. 

 Bractes two, small, on each pedicel near the base. Ca- 

 ?i/:c superior, five-toothed, permanent. The base is join- 

 ed to the cnlcir^ed apex of the pedicel by a contracted 

 articulation. Corol tubular. Tube considerably gibbous. 

 Mouth five-toothed, and contracted. Filaments ten, in- 

 serted on the base of the tube of the corol. Anthers li- 

 near, ending in a linear, brown scariose flat arista, as 

 long as the anthers themselves, the whole shut up with- 

 in the corol. Germ inferior, five-celled, with two ver- 

 tical rows of ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style 

 the length of the corol. Stigma five-lobed. Berries inferi- 

 or, globular, succulent, the size of a small pea, smooth, 

 of a greenish-yellow when ripe, five-celled. Seeds many 

 in each cell, oblong, rugose. Perisperm soft, and white. 

 Embryo straight, cylindric, green, nearly as long as the 

 jjerisperm. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle cylindric^ the 

 length of the cotyledons, centripetal. 



2. C. variegata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, entire. Racemes axillary, 

 few flowered, drooping. 



Beug. Jalctraoot. 



A stout shrubby plant, a native of mountain forests 

 near Chittagong, Silhet, and on the Garrow hills, where it 

 blossoms during the cool season, when its numerous, 

 most beautiful, large, variegated, rosy flowers are highly 

 ornamental ; the seed ripens in July. 



Branches thick, ligneous, and of a stunted appearance, 

 covered with rough, ash-coloured bark. Young shoots 

 smooth, and coloured. Leaves alternately crowded about 

 the ends of the branchlets, subsessile, lanceolar, entire, 

 firm and smooth ; from five to six inches long, and one 



