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Bemj (or capsule) I'our-lobed, four-paitible, with a single 

 seed ill each. Embryo erect ; without perisperin. 



1. V. infortunata. Roxh. 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate-cordate, serrulate, downy. Pa- 

 nicles terniiual, brachiate. Berry enclosed in the enlarged 

 coloured calyx, four-lobed. 



Clerodendruin fbliatuui, Sec. Burm. Zeyl. G6. /. 29. htfor- 

 tunatum. WlUd. Hi, 386. 



Peragu. Rlieed. JIal. ii. t. 25. 



Bhanti, or Bhantaca, in Sanscrit. 



Hind. Bhant. 



A very pretty shrub when in flower, and fruit. It is gene- 

 rally found under the shade of large trees, in consequence of 

 birds dropping- the seeds there. Flowers in February and 

 March ; seed ripens in April. 



Stem erect, somewhat quadrangular. Branches fev, op- 

 posite, four-sided. Leaves opposite, petioled, remote, cor- 

 date, slightly serrate, downy, very various in size, but in ge- 

 neral large, in old plants much narrower, even ovate lan- 

 ceolate. Panicles terminal, large, cross-armed, coloured. 

 Flotuers numerous, pretty large, white with a small tinge of 

 red. Calyx increasing with the fruit, of a bright red : divisions 

 lanceolate, waved. Corol, its five divisions are ranged in a 

 semicircular form on the upper side. Stamens nearly equal, 

 ascending until fecundation is over, then declining. Style 

 declined, until fecundation is over, then ascending. Berry 

 a little depressed, somewhat four lobed lodged in the calyx, 

 the divisions of which are now enlarged, of a conic shape, red 

 and leathery, of the size of a small black cherry; when ripe, 

 of the same smooth, shining, black colour. Seeds four in 

 ihe complete berries, but it is seldom they all come to per- 

 fection, convex and wrinkled on the outside. Embryo erect, 

 without perisperm. 



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