Ronileletia. pentandiua monogyniA^ 13g 



pubescence and in their inflorescence; a circumstance which renders 

 their specific discrimination difficult. I have observed a singular 

 deviation in the situation of the stamina in some of the plants of 

 the present species at Nipal ; they are sometimes inserted below the 

 throat of the corolla, which is in that case unusually ventricose and 

 hairy, sometimes the apices of the anther* are a little exserted ; in 

 both these cases the pistilum is remarkably short. In a few instan- 

 ces the calycine lacinia were without any glands P 



7- R. spicata, Wall. 



Leaves elliptic, acuminate, much attenuate downwards, villous, 

 as is also the ramous panicle. Flowers tetrandrous, disposed m 

 unilateral geminate spikes. Calyx eglandular. 



A native ot Penang, where it was found by Mr, Jack in 1819. 



Probably a small tree. Branches slender, slightly compressed, 

 together with the leaves and inflorescence densely covered with soft 

 short villosity. — Leaves spreading, approximate, especially towards 

 the extremity of the branches, elliptic, sub-obovate, acuminate, taper- 

 ing extremely much from the outer third to the base, where they 

 are very narrow and decurrent on the petiol, from six to twelve in- 

 ches long, thin and membranous, somewhat rough above, with short 

 haii9, densely villous underneath, with numerous, parallel, sub-hori- 

 zontal nerves; the young ones, as also the young branches, tomentose 

 and silky. — Petiol half an inch long, marginate, gradually widening 

 into the base of the leaf — Stipules membranous, withering, oblong, 

 sub- connate, acute, smooth, except the elevated dursal rib which is 

 villous. — Panicle large, terminal, sub-sessile, with opposite, very 

 spreading, remote, compressed, sub»decussate, densely villous pedun- 

 cles-, the secondary division of the peduncles dichotomous, terminat- 

 ing in cylindric, slender, geminate, sometimes ternate spikes, of about 

 the thickness of a goose quill, two inches long. — Bractes under each 

 sub-division of the panicle lanceolate, sub-hastate, acute. — flowers 

 densely approximate, small, disposed in a single series along one 

 side of the rachis, unilateral, sub-sessile ; a lanceolate acute bractlet 

 under each.— Calyx villous, four-toothed ; teeth subulate, one 



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