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colubrinus, or Colubrina ferruginosa. — , 

 JAMAICA. Gordonia Scematoxylon. 



REDWOOD-TREE. Soyynidafebrifuga. 



REED. Arundo and Phragmites. —, 

 AROMATIC, of Scripture. Andropogon 

 Calamus aromaticus. — , BUR. Sparga- 

 nium. — , CANARY. Digraphis arundi- 

 nacea. — , COMMON. Phragmites com- 

 munis. — , EGYPTIAN. Papyrus anti- 

 quorum. — , INDIAN. Carina. — , SEA. 

 Ammophila arundinacea. — , SMALL. 

 Calamagrostis. — , TRUMPET. Arundo 

 occidentals. —, WATER. Arundo or 

 Phragmites. 



REED-MACE. Typha. 



REEPERS. Laths, or longitudinal sec- 

 tions of the Palmyra Palm, used for build- 

 ing purposes in the East. 



REEVESIA. A genus of Sterculiacece, 

 comprising a few evergreen bushes with 

 alternate stalked ovate or lance-shaped 

 leaves, somewhat like those of a laurel ; 

 and terminal cymes of white blossoms, 

 appearing at a distance like those of a 

 Viburnum, and remarkable for their pro- 

 truding stamiual tube, which terminates 

 in a round knob, consisting of fifteen 

 sessile anthers. The chief features of the 

 genus are:— A bell-shaped three to five- 

 lobed calyx, five-clawed petals, and a long 

 stamen-tube enclosing a stalked ovary, 

 which is tipped with a sessile five-lobed 

 stigma, and when ripe is an inversely 

 pear-shaped capsule about an inch long, 

 with five cells and one or two winged 

 seeds in each. R. thyrsoidea was intro- 

 duced from China in 1818 by John Reeves, 

 Esq., F.R.S., whose name the genus bears, 

 and is cultivated as a greenhouse shrub. 

 Two other species are known from the 

 ELhasya mountains in India. [A. A. B.] 



RE FLEXED. Curved backwards exces- 

 sively. 



REFRACTU3. Curved or directed back- 

 wards suddenly. 



REGELIA. A genus proposed by Schauer 

 for the Melaleuca sprengelioides, and an al- 

 lied species, both of them myrtaceous 

 shrubs from South-western Australia, 

 differing slightly from Beaufortia in the 

 dehiscence of their anthers, and in the 

 ovary having several ovules instead of a 

 single one in each cell. 



The same name has been also applied in 

 Continental gardens to a fine Seychelles 

 Palm, whichWendland has since designated 

 Verschaffeltia splendida. 



REGLISSE. (Frj Glycyrrhiza. — BA- 

 TARDE or SALVAGE. Astragalus ghjcy- 

 phyllos. — DES ALPES or DES MON- 

 TAGNE8. Trifolium alpinum. 



REGMA A tricoccous fruit like that of 

 spurges ; also any such fruit, whether the 

 number of cocci is three or not. 



REGRESSU8. In Morphology, signifies 

 the change from one organ into the form 



of the organs that immediately preceded 

 it ; as of petals into sepals. 



REGULAR. Having all the parts of each 

 series of a flower of a similar form and 

 size. 



REHMANNIA. A genus of the cyrtan- 

 draceous division of Gesneracea?, contain- 

 ing a single species, a Northern Chinese 

 herbaceous plant, with obovate coarsely 

 serrated alternate leaves decreasing in 

 size towards the top of the plant, and 

 solitary axillary long-stalked flowers. 

 These have a eampanulate five-cleft calyx ; 

 a corolla, with a long compressed ventricose 

 tube, and a two-lipped nearly equally five- 

 lobed limb, the two upper lobes of which 

 are bent back and the three lower spread 

 out ; two long and two short included 

 stamens with diverging anther-cells; a one- 

 celled ovary with two two-lobed parietal 

 placentas; and a slender style bearing a 

 stigma of two broad equal plates. [A. S.] 



REICHENBACHIA. A small little-known 

 shrub from the Rio Magdalena in tropical 

 South America, with alternate lanceolate 

 leaves, and small tubular flowers in termi- 

 nal cymes, which forms a genus of Nycta- 

 ginacece allied to Salpianthus. 



REIDIA. A genus of Euphorbiaceaz al- 

 lied to Phyllanthus, of which it has entirely 

 the habit, differing chiefly in the calyx of 

 the sterile flowers consisting of four in- 

 stead of five sepals, and the stamens be- 

 ing two instead of three in number. There 

 are about a dozen known species distri- 

 buted over tropical India and Java. They 

 are small bushes having slender twigs, 

 furnished with numerous small unequal- 

 sided ovate or oblong smooth entire leaves, 

 bearing in their axils, either singly or 

 in clusters, small green or whitish pink- 

 tipped flowers, fertile and sterile in the 

 same cluster (the fertile larger than the 

 sterile), and with slender drooping stalks 

 an inch or more in length. The calyx in 

 the females is of four to six deep tri- 

 angular divisions often fringed ; and in- 

 side these an equal number of glands sur- 

 rounding the ovary, which is tipped with 

 three forked styles. The fruits are little 

 trilobed capsules of the size of peas, with 

 three cells and two seeds in each. R. glau- 

 cescens is a very neat bush cultivated in 

 hothouses. Its slender twigs are furnish- 

 ed with elliptical pea-green leaves about 

 half an inch long, arranged in a two-ranked 

 manner so that the twigs have the aspect 

 of pinnate leaves. When this plant is 

 covered with its slender-stalked drooping 

 neatly fringed blossoms of a pinkish hue, 

 it is really an extremely pretty object. This 

 plant is a native of Java. M. Baillon 

 unites the genus with the West Indian 

 Epi?t>jlium,vrhich however embraces plants 

 of a very different aspect, although the 

 structure of the flower is very similar. He 

 also refers here a Javanese plant known 

 under the name of Eriococcus. [A. A. B.] 



R.EIMARIA. A genus of grasses belong- 

 | ing to the tribe Panicew, which has the 



