Rottlera. dioecia icosandria. 827 



which is at first ferruginous, but by age gets hoary. Leaves 

 alternate, long-petiolcd, cordate, tending to be peltate in 

 young- plants, rarely lobalc, generally a little repand, acumi- 

 nate, when young somewhat ferruginous, when full-grown 

 smooth, of a deep green above, and hoary underneath, with two 

 flat oblong glands at the base, from six to twelve inches long, 

 and fiom four to eight broad. Stipules minute. Panicles 

 terminal, male amljemale ones on distinct trees, composed of 

 several simple branches, which in the male are much longer. 

 Male floavers numerous, small, collected in small sessile 

 heads over the branches of the panicles. Female flowers 

 larger, and distinct. Calyx in both four or five-parted, 

 Co?'o/ none. Filaments in the male very numerous. Anthers 

 twin, in the female none. Germ roundish, generally four- 

 celled, each cell containing a single ovulum, attached to the 

 top of the axis. Styles, or stigmas four, or one for each cell 

 of the germ, spreading, brown and shaggy. Capsule of the 

 size of a small gooseberry, a little flattened, hoary, and pa- 

 pillose, generally four-celled, four-valved. S'eef/ solitary ; 

 the exterior integuments smooth, of ashining black, thick 

 and hard. Perisperm and embryo as in the order Euphorbia;. 



2. R. tinctoria. Willd. iv. 826; R. Carom, pi. vol. ii. No. 

 168. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, three-nerv- 

 ed, with two glands at the base. Panicles axillary and ter- 

 minal. Capsules tricoccous, covered with coloured farina. 



Sans, and Beny. Poonnag. 



Teling. WusMntagwndha or v^^s^^ntag•«ndha. 



Ponnagam. Rheed. Mai. v. t. 21. 



A native of Coromandel. Flowers in the cold season. 



The red mealy powder, which covers the capsules is used 

 by the natives to dye scarlet, and in Bengal the root is said 

 to dye red also. 



Compare with Croton coccineum. Willd. iv. 544. 



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