Welter*. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 533 



Bengal Medical Establishment, an eminent botanist, and author of 

 vaiions papers in the Asiatic Researches, of the history of Pegu, &c 

 He was the first discoverer of this very plant. 



WEB ERA, Schreb. gen. N. 1733 * 



Calyx five-parted. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ inferior, two* 

 celled ; cells few-, or many-seeded ; attachment interior. Berry bilo- 

 cular, cells few-, or many-seeded. Embryo centripetal, and furnish- 

 ed with a perisperm- 



1. W. corymbosa, PYilld, spec. i. 1224. Gcert- carp. 3- 71. t. 102.f- 



Shrubby. heaves ivora lanceolar to oblong, glossy. Corymbs ter- 

 minal. Calyx five-parted, aud nearly as long as the tube of the co- 

 rol. Capsules few-seeded. 



Rondeletia asiatica, Linn, snppl. 244. 



Cupi, Rheed. Mai. ii. 37 t. 23. 



Sung. ^i*nnr<?iJ, DroomotpMla, ^rfof =ST^: , Kumikara, T?f^ 

 "^X^s Piirivjadua, tj'.^ojTcfq^:, Padupotpida, ^I^fcT^: , Rajah 

 turoo, "JTiTW^ PiMgnihflj W^Wr., Kiitu\\\a\a ; ^mw*, Sooplml«» 

 ^I^f^ITs, VyadhHpoa, TjffftifN^i*, Punktiveejuka. 



Beng. Kzmlua. 



A pretty large, erect, unarmed, ramous shrub, common on most 

 parts of the Coromandel coast. J 



heaves opposite, petioled, broad-Ianceo^r, margins reflexed, 

 smooth, deep shining green, with hairy glands in the axils of the large 

 veins ; six or spven incites long, and about two and half broad. — 

 Stipules interfoliaceous, as in the other species. — Corymbs terminal, 



* This name has been previously commemorated by a genus of Mosses, of which tha 

 species have since been distributed among Bryum and Eartramia ; the above one is there- 

 fore continued. — See Sir J. E. Smith in Rees's Cycloped. in loco. — N. W. 



t Canthium, Pcrsoon Cupia, Syst. Veg. v. 206 — N. W. 



t I have received specimens in flower from the hills at Pinang, gathered iu Dceewbor 

 1822, by Mr. Porter, which differ iu no respect from this species. — N. W. 



