Ruhia. TETRANDRIA MOKOGYNJA, 



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gins and elevated nerves very villous. — Panicles divaricate, ternu- 

 nal or axillaiy, generally opposite, with sonne pairs of opposite sni;ill 

 leaves. Ramifications divaricate, trichotomous, Hiiform, with mi- 

 nute bractes at their base. — Divisions ot the corolla lanceolate, acui •, 

 one-nerved — Seeds round, covered with copious soft, hooked biii« 

 ties.— N, W. 



RUBIA. ScJireb. Gen. l64. 

 Calyx scarcely any. Corol one-pctalled, from four to five parted. 

 Berries inferior, twin. Seeds solitary. Lmhryo erect, and furnisUed 

 M'ith a perisperm. 



1. l\. Munjista. R. 



Perennial, scandent. leaves four-fold, long-petioled, cordate, 

 acute, iron) five to seven-nerved, hispid. CoiolAat, fivc-parled, pen- 

 tandrous. Fleming u Asiat. Res. xi. 177. 



Sans. 1RC^\-^T, Mwiijr^iha, f^^i^rr ^'" fq^T^T' Vjk/^sa, fafjft, 

 Jajgee,,'^5fX, Summ\y.\, ^X^M'iJk^T 'J'" ^T^?t"t^^ KaUaue- 

 shfka, yf ^s\ -."Jiff , lM<nulook?i;-tfrnee, "V.TSgtlft " 'i^fu:-<ft. l^hi/n- 

 deeree or Bi.wnd/iee, i:^!?'^ lihuudee, ^13^121^ ^*t. Yozauuvjiilee. 



Beng. Munj/t or Mwnjislha. 



A native ot Nepala, and other mountainous countries, north and 

 north east of Btngal. It urows in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 

 but requires uncommon care to keep it alive during the rainy sea- 

 son and has never blossomed I'lere. 



lioot perennial Itteins woody, scandent, climbing over trees and 



bushes. Blanches cross- armed, irom the axill of the large pair of 

 .leaves, jointed, swellhig at the jo.nts, hairy for a little distance be- 

 low ihem, fouj-sided ; angles sharp and armed with small, recurved 

 prickles ; the exieriur cortex, which forms these angles, drops off by 

 age, leaving the longer branches and stems round, and covered with 

 a soft reddish somewhat downy bark. — Leases four-fold, petioled, 

 one of the pairs always much larger, viz. about double the size of the 

 Other, and with longer petioles, all are beautifully cordate, entire, 



