14S tfENTANDKIA MONOGYNIA. Sc&Voh. 



ed a little ; smooth on both sides. — Stipules connecting the petioles, 

 on their inside, and tapering to a daggered point, pressing close upon 

 the brancelet. — Flowers small, white, collected in dense, globular, 

 sessile fascicles, in the axils of the leaves. — Bractes two or three, 

 like the calvx, and embracing the base of the germ. — Calyx five- 

 parted ; divisions acute, permanent. — Carol contorted, inside of the 

 short tube hairy. — Filaments none. Anthers affixed a little below 

 their apices within the tube, and in the fissures of the divisions of 

 the border of the corol. — Germ inferior, two-celled, with several 

 seeds in each. Style short. — Stigma large, oblong, hairy, two-cleft,, 

 but its lobes do not separate. — Berry globular, size of a pea, smooth, 

 two-celled. — Seeds several in each cell, imbricated in two rows, at- 

 tached to the partition above its middle.. Ferisperm conform t© 

 the seed. Embryo inverted, 



3. R. polysperma, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong, entire, acuminate^ smooth. Stipules 

 subulate. Spikes panicled, axillary. 



An elegant, very ramous shrub, a native of Chittagong. Flowers 

 In May j, and the seeds ripen in August and September. 



SCjEFOLA. Schreb. Gen. N. SOO„ 



Calyx five-cleffc. Corol one-petalled ; tube longitudinally cloven 

 on the underside, with unilateral five-cleft border., Germ two-celled, 

 one-seeded, attachment inferior. Drupe inferior. Nut two-celled* 

 Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. S. Taccada, R. 



Shrubby, with smooth, succulent branches. Leaves sessile, obo» 

 vate-cuneate, entire, shining. Peduncles axillary, solitary, two m 

 three times dichotomous. 



Lobelia Taccada, Gart.fruct. 5.119. t. 25. 



Buglossum littoreum, Rumph, amb* iv. jj. 118° t, 54, 



