WcZcra. FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 635 



Gwjer-kota, tlie vernacular name in Selhet, where it is indigenous. 

 It flowers in April, 



Stem and brandies ligneous, scandent; young shoots polished, as 

 is ever) tender part of the plant. — Leaves opposite, short-petioied, 

 long, entire, acuminate, glossy, about six inches long, and from 

 two to three bread. — Stipules as in the rest of the rubiacea. — Cymes 

 axillary, and in the folks of the branchlets, solitary, divisions gene- 

 rally biternate. — Flowers large, infundibulilbrm, flagrant, when they 

 first open white, but like the Gardenias become yellow by the second 

 day. — Calyx sub-companulate, five-toothed. — Coral with a long, sleu- 

 der tube; segments oi the border five, obliquely cblong. Anther* 

 linear, sessile on the mouth of the tube. — Germ inferior, oval, two- 

 celled, with many ovula in each, attached to an elevated receptacle 

 on the centre of the partition. Style the length of the tube of the 

 corol. Stigma of two, thin, oval lamina. 



4. W. oppositifolia, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar-oblong, firm and glossy. Panicleg 

 opposite to a leaf, composed of a few rigid, jointed, sub-recurved 

 spikes. Coroh with a short, woolly- mouthed tube. Stigma clavate, 

 entire. 



Native of Chittagong, where it blossoms in April. 



5. W. vdornfa, R. 



Shrubby. L.eaves lanceolar, polished, acuminate. Corymbs ter- 

 minal. Calyx five-toothed. 



Pa'wgrcojer, the vernacular name in Sj'lhet, where it is indi^eiv ms, 

 and grows to the size of a large shiub, or small tree. Flowering 

 time the hot season, when the air is perfumed with the fragrance of 

 its blossoms. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceo'ar, acuminate, ent : re, 

 polished, from four to eight inches long, by from one to two broad. 

 ^—Stipules triangular, &c as in the order. — Corymbs terminal, 



