■j 33 pentandria mostogykia. Rondeletia. 



ceolate, aeute, often biden'ate, furnished within their broad base 

 with a series of subulate glands. — Panicle terminal, broad, open 

 and spreading, sessile or elevated on a very short peduncle, many 

 ftimes trichotomous, from two to five inches high, pubescent. At 

 the base of it there are generally one or two pairs of lanceolate, 

 or linear, sub-sessile floral leaves, one or two inches long. — Peduncles 

 filiform, divaricate, supported at each division by a pair of fleshy, 

 opposite, lanceolate, villous hractes, having an entire or three-lobed 

 base; their margins marked with} ellow subulate fleshy glands ; those at 

 the ends of the ramifications very small, deeply divided into glandu- 

 lar laciniae; sometimes there is a minute pair of opposite bractes 

 between their bases. — Flowers large, yellow, scentless, fleshy, on 

 capillary, rather longish peduncles, geminate or ternate Aestivation 

 valvate. — Calyx slightly pubescent ; lacinia lanceolate, acute, with 

 a globular, yellow gland on each margin, sometimes at the apex also j 

 interstices glandular.— Tube of the corolla cylindric, broad, four times 

 longer than the calyx, pubescent without, densely villous within, a 

 little widening towards the naked throat ; lacinia spreading, ovate 8 

 acute, small, their apex slightly cuspidate. — Stamens inserted at the 

 base of the tube 5 filaments very short; anthers oblong, not elevated 

 beyond the height of the calycine laciniae. Ovarium nearly round, 

 as large as a coriander aeed, two celled ; otula numerous, inserted 

 on two fleshy septal placenta. — Stigma oblong, fleshy, pubescent, 

 scarcely elevated above the faux, equalling the filiform style in 

 length ; lobes linear, erect, with recurved margins,— Capsw/e round, 

 as large as a pepper-corn, greyish, smooth, marked with two oppo» 

 site, slight furrows, bursting at the apex, within the persistent recurv- 

 ed laciniae of the calyx, with a sub-orbicular, obscurely two-valved 

 hiatus. Seeds numerous, minute. 



' Ohs. I thought at first that the S/lhet shrub differed from the Nipal 

 one by its much longer and altogether larger leaves and more ample 

 supra-decompound inflorescence; but on comparing my specimens 

 from both countries 1 find ihey cannot with any propriety be sepa- 

 rated. Indeed most of the East Indian species of this genus vary 

 considerably in the figure aad size of the leaves, the degree of theiir 



