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its inside, opposite to the fissures thereof ; at the base 

 they are formed into a tube opening on the inside, and 

 there bearded ; apex two-lobed, and ornamented with, 

 generally, five short filaments. Stamens just twice as 

 many as there are petals in the corol, two being found 

 enclosed within each of them. Filaments half the length 

 of the petals, unequal, the interior one of the pair being 

 shorter. Anthers linear, erect, with their apices sharp 

 and incurved. Germ inferior, turbinate, three or four- 

 celled, with two ovula in each. Style the length of the sta- 

 mens. Stigma slightly three or four pointed. Pericarp 

 no other than the permanent calyx, in which the plumu- 

 la, or ascending part of the embryo on the base of the 

 seed is lodged. Seeds solitary, subcylindric, tapering 

 equally towards each end, pendulous ; the plumula, or 

 ascending part of the future plant is lodged on the base, 

 while from its apex the rostellum, or root issues. 



The wood is of a yellowish colour, hard and durable ; 

 its chief use is for burning, and for posts with which to 

 construct the houses of the natives. 



3. R. parviflora. R. 



Leaves ventricose-oblong. Peduncles axillary, many- 

 flowered ; calyx eight-cleft. Stamina eight pair, embrac- 

 ed by the eight petals. Fruit subcylindric. 



A small, very ramous, smooth, glossy tree, a native of 

 the salt, and brackish creeks, &c. of the Delta of the 

 Ganges. Flowering time December. Leaves opposite, 

 crowded about the ends of the smooth twigs, short-pe- 

 tioled, from broad-lauceolar to ventricose-oblong, entire, 

 firm and polished ; from four to five inches long, and from 

 one to two broad. Stipules large, within the leaves, &c. 

 as in the Fici. Peduncles axillary, once or twice tricho- 

 tomous, smooth. Bractes small. Flowers small, one on 

 each division of the peduncles. Calyx eight-cleft ; seg- 

 ments acute. Petals eight, considerably shorter than the 



