BaeobotrijS. rENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 231 



Trunk erect, in plants eight or ten years old as thick as a man's leg. 

 Branches numerous, extending down to the ground, straight and 

 nearly erect. — Bark smooth, dark brown, general height of the 

 whole plant from eight to twelve feet. — Leaves alternate, rather 

 short-petioled, ventricose-oblong, tapering to an acute point, re- 

 motely and deeply repand, serrate, pretty smooth on both sides, 

 and glossy on the upper surface, veins large and parallel, from 

 three to six inches long, and from one to two and half broad. — 

 Stipules none. — Racemes axillary, and terminal, often several toge- 

 ther, some of them ramous, much shorter than the leaves ; the ter- 

 minal one generally panicled.- — Flowers numerous, diverging, short- 

 pediceiled, small, pure white. — Bractes one at the base of each 

 pedicel, and two pressing on the calyx. — Calyx single, semi-supera, 

 permanent, five-parted, divisions obtuse. — Corol one-petalled. Tube 

 short, somewhat gibbous. Border of five equal, roundish, expand- 

 ed segments. — Filaments short, inserted into the tube of the corol, 

 immediately below the middle of the segments of the border, in- 

 curved, smooth. Anthers cordate, converging in form of a dome 

 over the apex of the pistillum.— Germ semi-inferior, broad-ovate, 

 one-celled, containing numerous ovula from the bottom of the cell. 

 Style short. Stigma tending to be lobate. — Berry inferior, crowned 

 with the permanent calyx, round, smooth, dry, size of a grain of 

 black pepper, one-celled, evalvular. Receptacle round-cordate, free, 

 attached to the bottom of the cell, as in Primula, &c. Gaert. Sent. 

 i. 233. t. 50. Seeds numerous, angular. 



2. B. ramentacea, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, smooth. 

 Panicles terminal, axillary, and lateral, ramentaceous. Berries 

 minute, white, succulent. 



Mulmoou'ya is the vernacular name at Silhet, where it is indigen- 

 ous. It grows to be a pretty large shrub, blossoms in Match and 

 April, and the seeds ripen in October and November. 



