140 ffENTANDMA MONOGYNIA.' Rondeletia, 



generally shorter than the rest. — Corolla four times longer than 

 the calvcine lacinise, pubescent ; tube a little widening at the apex. 

 — Lacinia four, spreading, ovate, acute, villous above. Faux naked. 

 — Stamina four, inserted under the apex of the tube ; anthers linear, 

 slightly elevated above the throat. Ovarium ovate, very small, vil- 

 lous, its vertex elevated within the calvcine laciniae, and forming a 

 glandular disc round the base of the style. — Style capillary^ longer 

 than the tube. — Stigma two-lobed, linear, lobes recurved. — Capsule 

 small, round, villous, crowned, two-celled, bipaitible almost to 

 the base ; its epidermis separating, leaving the inner charlaceous 

 membrane naked and smooth. Each half, into which ihe capsule 

 divides, is two-valved on the inner flaitish side towards the apex, 

 Tlacenta, rounded, foveolate 3 at first attached to each side of the dis- 

 sepiment, becoming free at the separation of the cells.- — Seeds nu- 

 merous, minute, cuneate, angular, naked, brown. 



Obs. The habit and character of the flowers of this fine plant are 

 so much like those of our asia'.ic Rondeleiiae that 1 have uot ventured to 

 remove it from that genus. The reduction in the number of stamina 

 and laciniae of the flowers, and the bipartible capsule will hardly ad- 

 mit of any generic distinction; the naked faux it has in common 

 with all the other species which I have examined. Its inflorescence 

 is like that of a Toumefortia. Bellardia of Seine ber, and Tontanea 

 of Aubletj which are probably one and the same, coine very near 

 this shrub in flower and fruit. 



8. R. pendula, Wall. 



Branches pendulous. Leaves lersceolate, ovate, acuminate, a little 

 rough underneath, smooth above. Corymbs terminal, ob.ong, pani- 

 cled. Tube of the corolla filiform. 



1 have found this exceedingly elegant shrub between Hetaunra 

 and Bheemped?, in flower in December ; also on Sbeopore in January. 



A branchy shrub, from five to six feet high. Branches opposite, 

 long, slender and pendulous, obscurely quadrangular, brown, witn. 

 smoothish separable epidermis j new shoots pubescent. Leaves 



