134 PENTANJDUlA MONOGYNIA. UtonHehtia, 



Trunk straight. Branches decussate. Bark smooth, brown on 

 the older parts ; on the younger green. — Leaves opposite, sub-sessi'e, 

 oblong- ventricose, tapering at both ends, above smooth, underneath 

 somewhat villous, entire, from four to ten inches long, and from 

 two to four or five broad. — Stipules within the petioles, round- 

 reniform, recurved, smooth. — Panicles terminal, and from the exte- 

 rior axils ; the former brachiate, the latter have the whole of their 

 ramifications alternate; they are all round and villous. — Flowers mi- 

 nute, pure white, very numerous, sessile, or short-pedicelled,.on the 

 short, alternate, ultimate ramifications of the panicle. — Bracles of the 

 ramifications large, and of various forms ; tho.se of ihe flowers, sever- 

 al, minute; all are villous.— Calyx villous -^segments five, roundish.— 

 Coral ; tube perfectly cylindric ; border of live, ovate, revolute 

 segments, which are much shorter than the tube. — Filaments shorty 

 inseited into the bottom of the fissures at the border of the coroL 

 Anthers ova!e, incumbent. — Germ inferior, roundish, two-celled* 

 each containing many ovula attached to an elevated receptacle on the 

 centre of the partition. Style raiher lunger than the tube of the 

 corol. Stigma of two, large, sub-rotund, spieadmg lobe*.— Capsules 

 minute, round, lwo«<ceiled, two-valvtd, opening across the apex..-— 

 Seeds very minute, number, shape, &c. uncertain, as they scarcely 

 ever come to their full size. 



2. R. tinctoria, R. 



Arboreous. Leaves petioled, ob1ong=lanceolar, smooth. Stipules 

 triangular, cuspidate. Panicles terminal, decussate ; Jlowers tern. 



JBeng. Toola-lodh. 



A small tree, of about ten or twelve feet in height; a native of 

 Burdwan and Midnapoor, in Bengal, where it blossoms in January 

 and February ; the seeds ripen in May. 



Trunk straight, rather short, about as thick as a man's leg. Bark 

 covered with a dark brown, slightly crooked, spongy lamina; in- 

 wardly fibrous, yellowish, and astringent. Brunchlels opposite, 

 young shoots four-sided, and densely clothed with short, ferruginous 

 hairs*-— Leases opposite, rarely tera, petioled, from oblong to lance©- 



