$1S rENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. RibeS, 



Obs. by N. W. 



I have found it in Nipal, in low valiies, at Hetounra, Marekoli, 

 &c» growing to a very great size, and thickly decorated with ra- 

 cemes of fruit and flower in the rainy season. I have also had it 

 from the neighbourhood of Saharunpore and from Siihet, where it 

 is called Mutang Sang (arSffi a§1tf.)— N. W. 



2. D. (formerly Celosia, R.) tetragyna, R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves ovate-cordate. Flowers axillary. 

 Styles four-cleft. 



A native o! the Moluccas, and from thence accidentally introduc- 

 ed into the botanic garden at Calcutta, amongst spice and other 

 plants ; flowering time in Bengal, the cold season. 



Stem ligneous, scandent; young shoots pendulous, striated, smooth. 

 ■ — Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-cordate, acuminate, somewhat 

 undulate, smooth on both sides ; about two inches long, and one 

 broad. — Petioles channelled.-— Flowers axillary, from solitary to 

 the being collected on small short-pedunc'ed heads ; they are small 

 and of a pale-greenish white colour. — Calyx (I would in this 

 species rather say bractes,) three-leaved. — Corol (rather calyx) five- 

 leaved ; leaflets obtuse, and about as long as the stamens. — Nectary 

 with four or five, lengthened, antheriferous divisions, — Germ four- 

 lobed. Styles four, recurved. — Berry with from one to four lobes, 

 smooth, when ripe red, succulent, size of a pea, containing from 

 cue to four reniform seeds, though one is by far the most common. 



Additional genera by IV. TV. 



RIBES, Linn. 



Petals five, inserted on the five-cleft calyx, together with the sta- 

 mina. Style bifid. Berry inferior, many-seeded. 



