Order X. 
DICECIA DODECANDllIA. 
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13996 Stem smooth 
13997 Leaves peltate cordate roundish angular 
13998 Leaves peltate cordate lobed 
13999 Leaves peltate smoothish cordate-roundish bluntly angular glaucous beneath, Racemes simple 
14000 Leaves ovate subcordate at base bluntly truncate at end with a little point, Fem. racemes axillary simple 
14001 Leaves cordate villous beneath 
14002 Leaves orbicular subcordate obtuse 5-7-nerved mucronulate ash-colored beneath, Peduncles very large 
14003 Leaves ovate or lanceolate 3-5-nerved : younger villous ; old ones downy, Branchlets vill. Pedicels few. fl. 
14004 Leaves roundish ovate acute crenate 
14005 Leaves oblong obtuse serrated narrowed at base 
14006 Leaves ovate oblong acuminate serrated 
14007 Leaves elliptical bluntish repand serrated obtuse at base 
14008 Leaves ovate oblong with pellucid dots. Racemes short pellucid 
14009 Leaves elliptical sharp-pointed 
14010 Leaves alternate oblong elliptical acute at each end 
14011 Leaves alternate cuneiform truncate 5-toothed at end streaked with veins 
14012 Leaves altern. roundish eUipt. amplexicaul. from the middle to end mucronate toothed streaked with veins 
14013 Leaves alternate oblong cuneiform entire and 3-toothed nerved downy beneath 
14014 Leaves alternate lanceolate smooth nerved terminated by a spine : floral 3-toothed, Branches downy 
14015 Leaves connate ovate 3-cornered hoary 
14016 Leaves opposite orbicular entire appressed many-nerved 
14017 Leaves opposite or ternate orbicular appressed toothletted 7-nerved 
14018 Leaves fascicled rounded furrowed smooth 
2104. Gelonium, So named by Roxburgh ; but it is not known with what meaning. East Indian trees, with 
alternate leaves, the tubular stipiilar of a Ficus, and axillary flowers. 
2105. Rottlera. Named by Roxburgh, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Rottler, an East Indian botanist of reputa- 
tion, who resided many years at Tranquebar in the character of a Danish missionary. Rottlera tinctoria is a 
native of the inland mountainous parts of the Circars of Hindostan, flowering in the cold season. Dr. Rox. 
burgh never found it any where else. This is a middle-sized, erect, branching tree. Leaves alternate, stalked, 
elliptic, oblong, acute, entire, from four to eight inches in length, three-ribbed, and veiny ; nearly smooth 
above ; downy beneath, furnished at their base with two brown glands. Footstalks round, downy, from one to 
three inches long. Flowers small, in clusters about the tops of the branches, axillary, and terminal ; the latter 
branched. Capsules the size of a small cherry, clothed with abundance of deep red granular powder, easily 
rubbed off This powder is a valuable article of commerce, being much esteemed, especially among the Moors, 
for dyeing silk of a deep, bright, very beautiful and durable, full orange or flower color. When the capsules 
are ripe, in February or March, they are gathered, and the powder carefully brushed off. It is preserved 
without any further process, and is sold to the merchants trading to Hydrabad and other inland parts. This 
substance is but little acted upon by water, except with the admixture of alkaline salts, when it gives out 
a very deep blood-red color. To spirits it communicates a rich, deep, reddish flame color ; but in neither in- 
stance does it dissolve, the grains remaining entire, like sand. The inhabitants know this powder by the name 
of Wassunta-gunda, and use it in the following manner : — To four parts of Wassunta-gunda are added one of 
alum, and two of salt of soda, native barilla. These are rubbed well together, with a portion of expressed oil 
of Sesamum, so small as hardly to be perceived. When well mixed, the whole is put into boiling water, in 
quantity proportioned to the silk which is to be dyed, and kept boiling smartly, more or less time, according to 
the shade required. The silk is turned frequently, to render the color uniform. 
2106. Cliffortia. Named in honor of George Cliffort, a Dutch gentleman ; a great lover of plants, and one 
of the earliest of Linnseus's patrons. He had a superb garden at Hartcamp, of which Linneeus published the 
catalogue in one volume folio, in 1737. Shrubs of little beauty, except C. pulchella, which is exceedingly 
pretty ; they are easily cultivated in a good greenhouse. 
ICOSANDRIA, 
POLYANDRIA. 
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and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
