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pale ; stipules membranous, margins bristly. Flowers small, 
white or pale lilac, solitary on slender, axillary stalks or 2-4 in a 
small cyme. Calyx-tube ovoid ; teeth 4, minute, distant in fruit. 
Corolla tubular, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, anthers nearly sessile at 
the mouth of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, 
protruding, 2-branched ; ovules many in each cell. Capsule 
hemispheric, opening at the top by 2 valves ; seeds many, minute. 
Simla, Mushobra ; August, September. — Temperate Himalaya, 3000- 
7000 ft. 
8. RANDIA. In honour of Isaac Rand, a British botanical 
author of the eighteenth century. — All tropical regions ; most 
abundant in Asia and Africa. 
Randia tetrasperma, Roxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 109. A small, 
glabrous, rigid shrub ; branchlets short, usually ending in a spine. 
Leaves opposite, crowded towards the end of branchlets, ovate 
or oblanceolate, ^-2 in., narrowed into a short stalk ; stipules 
broadly lanceolate, long-pointed. Flowers solitary, axillary, 
sessile, f in. long, white, tinged with green. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 
lobes 5, long, narrow. Corolla tubular ; lobes 5, long, acute, 
reflexed. Stamens 5, at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; anthers 
long, linear, nearly sessile. Ovary 2-celled ; styles slender, far- 
protruding, stigma spindle-shaped ; ovules many in each cell. 
Berry purple, globose, \ in. diam. ; seeds small, about 6 in each 
cell, immersed in pulp. 
Simla ; April-June. — Temperate Himalaya, 4000-6000 ft. 
Randia dumetorum, Lamk., is a common shrub throughout N. India, and 
may occasionally be found in the hills up to 3000 ft. It differs from the above 
in having long, axillary spines, densely hairy calyx and corolla, and yellow 
fruit. 
9. HAMILTONIA. In honour of Dr. Francis Hamilton (pre- 
viously Buchanan), of the Bengal Medical Service and Superinten- 
dent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, at the end of the eighteenth 
and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.— India, China. 
Hamiltonia suaveolens, Roxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 197. An erect 
shrub, 4-10 ft. ; branches spreading. Leaves fetid when crushed, 
opposite, stalked, roughly pubescent, ovate-lanceolate, 3-9 in. ; 
stipules short, broad, acute, persistent. Flowers \ in. long, blue- 
lilac, sometimes white, in small, bracteate, head-like clusters at the 
end of short, forking branches forming terminal, pubescent panicles. 
Calyx hairy, short ; limb 5-parted, persistent. Corolla pubescent, 
funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, short, spreading. Stamens 5, filaments 
short, anthers linear. Ovary 5-celled, the partitions more or less 
disappearing in fruit ; style long, slender, 5-branched at the top ; 
ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule small, ovoid, opening from 
