176 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Slda. 



Kurundoti. Hheed. Mai. x. t. 18. 

 Silaonn'uin vulgare. Humph, Amh. vi. t. 19. 

 A nahve of'Benoai and the Moluccas. Flowers in the cool 

 season, in the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 



14. S. rhomboidea. Roxb. 



Shrubby, erect, ramous. Leaves short-petioled, narrow- 

 rhomboidal, serrate, three-nerved, villous. Stipules setace- 

 ous. Fedvncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, 

 one-Mowered. Capsules ten, without beak. 



Hind, and Bern/. Sufet or Shwet Bariala, or Berela. 



A native of Bengal, where it blossoms during the cold 

 season. The flowers expand at noon. 



Stem, erect, ligneous. Branches ascending ; young shoots 

 a little mealy, height of the whole plant from three to six 

 feet. Leaves alternate, short-petioled ; the inferior in young- 

 plants rhomboidal ; the superior amongst the Howers lanceo- 

 late, all are serrate, more or less three-nerved and villous, 

 particularly underneath, and there hoary also; size very 

 various. Stipules longer than the petioles, bristle-shaped. 

 Pedimdes axillary, solitary, slender, erect, shorter than the 

 leaves, one-flowered ; the snraller branchlets in the axills of 

 the leaves, wiihlheir flowers often givethe appearance of two 

 or more flowers from the same axill. Carol sub rotate, small, 

 pale yellow. Petals very obliquely and deeply retuse. 

 Stamens numerous from the apex of their tube. Style about 

 ten-cleft. Capsules (or arils) generally ten, forming, before 

 ripe, a depressed, somewhat und>ilicated orb, and nearly co- 

 vered by the incurved divisions of the calyx singly ; when 

 ripe, gaping at the top, and having then the appearance of 

 being two-horned. 5eerf solitary. It differs from rhombijblia 

 (Linn.) in the arils having no horns. 



15. S. rhombifolia. Willd. iii, 740. 



Shrubby, coloured. Leaves short-petioled, rhomb-lanceo- 

 ate, serrate, soft underneath. Peduncles solitary, nearly as 



