384 TETEANURIA MONOCYNIA. RublS. 



acute, pointed, generally five or seven-nerved, though in the largest 

 there are sometimes nine, and in the smallest three, or even sometimes 

 obliterated ; these nerves are armed vviUi small recurved prickles, like 

 those on the angles of the branchlets ; both sides channelled. — Pa- 

 mcies terminal, oblong, composed of numerous, opposite, small, sub- 

 globular, trichotomous panicles from the axill of the fluial leaves. 

 — Feduncles and pedicels four-sided, smooth. — Bracles opposite, 

 sessile, long, corduie. — Nozcers numerous, minute. — Calyx, if any, 

 so minute as not to be visible. — Corol flat, five-parted ; divisions 

 lanceolate, acute, with points inflected. — Slamens live, shorter than 

 the corol. — Germ beneath, twin. Sti/lc scarcely any, stigma large, 

 two-cleft. — Berries two, or one ; the second not always coming- 

 to maturity, globular, size of a small grain of pepper, smooth. — 

 Seed single, round, smooth, with a deep pit on one side. 



Obs. It differs from R. cordifoUa in being pentandrous.* The 

 roots, stems, and larger branches are used to dye red with. 



2. R. alata. Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, petloled, quatern, very scabrous. 

 Slem and branches four-winged prickly. Flowers pentandrous, hispid 

 in trichotomous, elongated, straight, a.\i!lary, and terminal corymbs. 



A native of Nepala, from whence Mr. Gardner sent me speci- 

 mens. It blossoms in June. 



Root red Stem several feet long, apparently leaning, strong, to- 

 gether with the opposite or vcrticilled branches four-cornered, and 

 four-winged, the wings beset with short, recurved prickles, otherwise 

 pretty smooth ; joints remote. — Leaves spreading, quatern, unequal, 

 from an inch to an inch and a half long, much shorter than their in- 

 terstices, rough on both sides, especially along their margins, fur- 



* I stronc;ly suspect that R. cordi/oZu, Linn. Mant is this very plant, especially ai 

 Lamarck observes in his description that the flowers are four and five-cleft; Encych 

 Bot. ii. 606. The plants a^ree in every respect. In the numerous specimens which 

 have been sent to me by Mr. Oardner from Gossain-Than and Katmandu, and by 

 Sir Robert Colqiihouti fiou) Almova 1 have always found the flowers pentandrous. 

 -N. W. 



