288 pentanduia monogyhia. JEmbella. 



Found by Mr. Roxburgh on the Rajmahul hills ; from thejice he 

 sent the seeds to this garden, where in six j ears the plants produced 

 from them were about ten feet high, with an erect stem, many nearly 

 erect, and spreading branches, covered with smooth, asli-eoloured 

 bark. The young shoots are somewhat angular and downv. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, smooth, entire, from two 

 to three inches long, one aud half or two broad. — Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, simple, much shorter than the leaves. — Bractes solitary, 

 subulate, one-flowered. — Flowers small, short-pedicelled, greenish- 

 white, rather inconspicuous. — Calyx five-leaved, or deeply five-cleft, 

 ovate, villous. — Coral five-petalled, ovate, first spreading, afterwards 

 revolute ; thrice the length of the calyx, villous. — Filaments five, short; 

 inserted on the petals. Anthers cordate. — Germ superior, ovate, 

 one-celled, containing one ovulum, attached to the bottom of the 

 cell. Style short. Stigma rather enlarged, but simple. — Berry dry, 

 spherical, size of a grain of pepper, one-celled, one-seeded. — Seed y 

 perisperm and embryo as in the former species, viz. copious peri- 

 sperm, with transverse, serpentine embryo, as in Gaertner's Anguitta- 

 ria, i. 372. t. 77. 



Obs. by N. JV. 



The above shrub has become very large and rambling. All the 

 young branches as well as the under surface of the leaves are pube- 

 scent ; the tender parts densely clothed with rust-coloured, jointed 

 and glandular tomentum. The leaves and Jlouers are beset with 

 resinous dots, which are elevated on the latter. — N. W. 



3. E* vestita, Roxb. 



Shrubby, scandent, very ramous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, at- 

 tenuate, sub-serrulate. Racemes axillary. 



Oaour Baberung, the vernacular name in Stlftet, where it is in- 

 digenous in the forests, climbing over trees and shrubs for support. 

 It is uncommonly well furnished with branchlets aud foliage. The 



