Ravdia. pentandiua monogvnia. 1|5 



Stem straight. Bark smooth. Branches opposite, expanding, 

 indeed almost horizontal. Bark of the woody parts dark-brown, 



of the young shoots green, and smooth. — Leaves opposite, drooping, 

 short-petioled, broad lanceolate, entire, smooth on both sides, from 

 three to four inches long, and about one broad — Stipules within 

 the leaves, large, tapering, caducous. — Spikes axillary, for the most 

 part solitary, sub-sessile, about one-half or one-third the length of 

 the haves. — Flowers sessile, numerous, small, pale greenish white. 

 — Bractes one-flowered. — Caltjx four-toothed, permanent. — -Corol 

 funnel-shaped; iotder four-parted ; mouth of the tuae villous. — Fila- 

 ments short, Atilhtrs linear,. half hid in'lhetube of the coroi. Stigma 

 bifid— Germ inferior, two-celled, with several ovula in each, attached 

 to the thickened centre of the partition.— Berry round, smooth, shin- 

 ing, s!iaw-co!oured, .size of a pea, two-celled. — Seeds two, three, or four 

 in each cell, attached to the upper half of the partition ; shape very 

 various. Integument fibrous. — Perisperm cartilaginous. — Embryo 

 inverse, half the length of the perisperm,, Cotyledans linear..— iJIacfo/e 

 obLng, superior. 



2. R. stricta, R* 



Shrubby, straight. Leaves opposite, oblong, pointed. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile. 



A native of the mountains north of Bengal. In the Botanic Garden 

 its flowering time is the cold season. 



Stems several, straight, ornamented with numerous, cross-armed, 

 spreading branches, down to the root ; height of the whole from 

 five to ten feet. — Leaves opposite, very short-petioled, spread- 

 ing, oblong, or broad-lanceolate, pointed, margins entire, but wav- 



* This species is very common in all parts of Ni pal, blossoming and fruiting from 

 the months of Aprilto November. I have specimens from Silhet underthe Bengalee 

 name of Bunmalee; ihey seem to differ only in having broader and on the uhole 

 larger leaves, which in the Nipal shrubs are narrow-lanceolate. — Macrocnemitm 

 sfridum, Rnxb. fide Cycl.Rees. in loco, etSyst. Veg. v. 6; and Rondeletia stricta, Roth, 

 fide Syst. Veg. ibid. 234, are no doubt this plant- The synonymon of Pluckenet, 

 Alnia^. 27, 1. 132. r". 6. quoted in tUe last mentioned work, belongs probably to another 

 tenuis.— N. \Y, 



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