Rondelelia* pentandria monogynia. 



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ciliate bractes. —Calyx, enrol, stamens, and pistil as in the genus. 

 —C.jpsu/e small, black, angular. — Seeds numerous, immersed in the 

 receptacles, as in a nidus. 



5- R. scundens x R. 



Shrubby, scaudent, smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, 

 entire. Panicles axillary, small, brachiate. Capsules globular. Seeds 

 numerous, small. 



Found indigenous on the Island of Mauritius by Colonel Hardwick 

 in flower and with ripe seed in June and July, 



Additions by N. fV. 



6. ft. hngifolia, Wall 



Leaves elliptic- oblong, acuminate, greatly tapering downwaids, 

 villous underneath. Panicle smooth, trichotomous. Flowers ter- 

 naie, with glandular calyces. 



Native of Silliet, blossoming in the rains, and first communicated 

 to me by the late Mr. R. M. Smith. I have also found it in Nipal 

 on Chanda-giW, Nag-l7ijoon, at the foot of Sheoporc near Thoka, 



blossoming from Feb: uary till June. The Fruit ripen8 in the rainy 

 seas . n. 



Beng. Soopan. 



A small spreading shrub, sparingly branched. — Branches rounded, 

 hollow and pithy, covered with a smooth, shining, white, soft epider- 

 mis, which giadually separates and at length falls off, leaving the 

 woody part naked ; young branches alternately compressed, villous 

 — Leaves approximate, very spreading, oblong-eliiptie, tapering into 

 a very slender, long acumen, much attenuate downwards, from six to 

 fourteen inches long, thin and membranous, with margins slightly une- 

 qual, sub-repand, beset with adpressed short hairs, dark green above, 

 villous and soft underneath, marked there with numerous sub-opposite, 

 oblique, parallel nerves, and with capillary reticulate veins. — Petiol 

 from one to three inches long, slender, margined from the decurrent 



base of the leaf, hairy .—Si/pM/es interpetiolary, withering, erect, lan» 



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