584 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Uvlica. 



Hind. P/ppj'ra-Saree. 



Is found about Calcutta, g^rowing among' bushes in wet 

 places ; flowers during the rains. 



Root of capillary fibres. Stem long and slender, resting 

 on the earth, and rooting ; above erect, seemingly perennial, 

 round, smooth, the inferior branches opposite, and cross-arm- 

 ed, the superior ones flower-bearing, alternate. Leaves the 

 inferior ones opposite, somewhat petioled, and larger, the up- 

 per ones smaller, alternate, and sessile, all linear-lanceolate, 

 three-nerved, somewhat scabrous, serrate ; size very various; 

 about four inches long. Floivers axillary, two female ones 

 generally placed on the outsides and sessile, while several pe- 

 duncled male ones occupy the centre, and expand in succes- 

 sion. The Male flowers before they expand appear like 

 a most regular, five-sided, half-excavated cup, with a beau- 

 tiful, fringed, scolloped margin. Ca/yx five-leaved. Coral 

 none. Jfectary none. Stamens five, flying open with a re- 

 markably smart jerk. Female flowers. Calijx, I cannot 

 separate it from the germ. Germ obcordate, compressed, 

 two-winged, with an elevated ridged appendix on the inside. 

 Style villous. Seed ovate, lanceolate, acute, smooth, base 

 white, upper part brownis^h blaick. 



7. U. siiffniticosa. R. 



Suffruticose. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, broadest at the 

 base, entire, three-nerved, smooth. Floioers axillary, crowd- 

 ed, sub-sessile. Female calyx one-leaved, ribbed, mouth bi- 

 dentate. 



From Sumatra, this perennial, somewhat shrubby plant, 

 was introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1803, 

 where it is in constant flower and seed the whole year. 



Root fibrous. Stem short, somewhat ligneous, soon divid- 

 ing into many diff'use, and erect, round branches and branch- 

 lets, covered with coloured bark, over which are many short, 

 appressed, white hairs, the whole extent of the longest of our 

 young plants about two feet. Leaves scattered, short-peti- 



