138 FENTANDSUA MONoGYNtA. RondtUtic 



oar, reflexed. Panicles terminal. Corol sub»campanulate. Stamens 

 exsert. Capsules many-seeded. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, and particularly over the 

 ruins of the ancient city of Gour ; Mr. Henry Creighton found it there, 

 and sent plants to the Botauic Garden at Calcutta, where they thrive 

 luxuriantly, and blossom in March, at which period they form one of 

 its greatest ornaments. 



Trunk erect. Bark ash»coloured. Branches opposite, spreading, 

 or even drooping. Bratichhts villous : height in ten years above 

 twenty feet. — heaves opposite, petioleti, broad-lanceoiar, entire, 

 soft with down on both sides ; general length from four to six inches. 

 — Petioles short, flat on the upper side, downy. ~— Stipules semilunar, 

 refiexed, downy. — Panicles terminal, very large, diffuse, ovate ; ra- 

 mijications round and downy. — Bractes sub-eusiform, varying much 

 in size. — Flowers very numerous, small, pure white, fragrant. — 

 Calyx small, five-toothed, hoary. — Corol. Tube short, and con- 

 tracted at the mouth by five elevations on the inside ; the five-oblong 

 segments of the border recurved. — Filaments fiom the five ribs of 

 the tube of the corol, nearly as long as the border. Anthers incum= 

 bent.— Germ beneath. Stigma large, two-cleft. — Capsule minute 

 villous, crowned with the withered calyx, two-celled, opening at 

 the apex within the calyx — Seeds many in each cell, small, rugose, 

 attached to an elevated receptacle, which is attached to the middle 

 of the partition. 



4 R. tetrandra, R. 



Shrubby. leaves lanceolate, sessile. Stipules pinnatifid. Flowers 

 axillary, glomerate, tetrandrous. Capsule many-seeded. 



A shrubby species; a native of Pulo-Pinang. 



Stem straight; branches erec f , smooth, four-sided, with the angles 

 sharp on the young shoots. — Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 

 smooth.— Stipules sub-pinnatifid, containing the inside of the base 

 of the leaves, tapering to an awi'd point. — Flowers numerous, short- 

 peduacled, crowded in the axills, and mixed with many, lanceolate, 



