SQ^ TETRANDRIA MONOGVNiA. TxWTA 



Perisperm acetabuliform, araygdaiine. — Einhryo erect, curved. Co- 

 tj//edons cordate. Radic/e cyimdric, curved, iuferior. 



Obs- A handsome shrub, and nearly allied to Vahl's I. parvifiora, 

 though very different from the plant so labelled in the Banlisian her" 

 barium, which grows in abundance in this garden. 



Ist. In the shape of t!ie leaves, which in that species are sub-sessi!e, 

 and generally have a broad stem-clasping base; in this the petiole 

 is about half an inch long, and the leaves taper more towards the 

 base than at the exterior end. 



2flf. In the thinness of the panicle, (though of the same confor- 

 mation), and the size of the flowers, which in this species are much 

 smnlier, and every way more delicate, and also in tlieir shape, which 

 in thai species is oblong before expansion, but in this round. 



2d. In this the anthers are sessile, in that they have short tilanients. 



8. I. villosa. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-cuueatc, lanceolar, villous underneath. 

 Corymbs super-decomponnd to the sixth or seventh degree, divi- 

 sions trichotomous, villous. Calyc'me segments oblong and ciliate. 



Beng. Choonaree. 



This species is a native of Silhet, where it grows to be an elegant 

 middling sized shrub with large crowded corymbs of fragrant white 

 flowers, which appear in May and June. 



Young shoots straight and villous. — Leares opposite, short-petio- 

 led, broad-cuncate, lanceolar, entire, acuminate, underneadi soft with 

 \ery short down ; from six to ten inches long, by from two to fonr 

 broad. — Stipules downy, with the ends subulate. — Corymbs terminal, 

 from fonr to eight times trichotomous, all the divisions downy, and 

 the last three-tiowered.— I>;at/es opposite, downy ; two slender small 

 ones pressing the base of each calyx — Calyx four-parted, seg- 

 ments oblong, ciliate. — Curul with a very long, smooth, filiform tube; 

 segments of the border four, oblong, spreading ; in the oblong ob- 

 tuse bud tliey are imbricated. 



