Morinda. p&ntandeia monooynia. 197 



round the apex of the germ. — Carol funnel-shaped; mouth of the 

 tui;e hairy. Border five-parted, segments lanceolate, acute. — Fila- 

 ments five, woolly, inserted into the tube of the corol, a little above 

 jits middle. Anthers linear, erect, half hid in the tube. — Germs tirm- 

 1) united ; single, two-celled, each cell containing two ovula, attached 

 to opposite ends of the wings of the large, thick, fleshy partition. 

 Style length of the tube of the corol. Stigma two-cleft. — Berries 

 compound, size of a pullet's egg or even longer, obtuse, when iipe 

 pale white, polished, and succulent, as described and figured by 

 Gaertner. 



Obs. Its roots are employed by the natives like those of several 

 other species to dye red. 



2. M. tinctoria, R* 



Leaves oblong, sub-sessile, opposite to each other, or to the so- 

 litary one-flowered peduncles. Stamina enclosed ; stigma exsert. 



Sung- ^T^TcI) Uchyoota. 



Hind, and Beng. Aich ; see Asiat Res. iv. 35 — 44. 



Teling. Tagaroo. 



This small tree I have found pretty common in every part of In- 

 dia, where I have been. It is in flower and fruit most part, if not 

 the whole year. 



Trunk seldom straight, and only a few feet in height, but support- 

 in» a pretty large, ramous, shady head. Bark covered with an 

 ash-coloured, deeply-cracked, corky crust. — Leaves opposite, except 

 where there is a peduncle, in that case, solitary, the peduncle oc- 

 cupying the place of the other leaf, short-petioled, oblong, entire, 

 smooth on both sides, but not lucid like citrij'olia, pale underneath, 

 from six to ten inches long. — Stipules within the leaves, as in the 

 other Rnbiacea. — Peduncles leaf-opposite, expanding, about an 

 inch long, supporting an oval head of aggregate, pure white, Jas- 

 mine-like, fragrant flowers. — Calyx as in the genus. The com- 



* This is perhaps the plant to which Sir J. E. Smith alludes in Rees's CycJop 

 m loco, as having been ?eut toi/im by Dr. Roxburgh for Mi tUrifeUa.— N. W. 



