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aristate, half as long as the tube. Berry oblong, crowded by the disk ; 
teeth deciduous. 
Mauritius, in shaded woods through the island. Also Madagascar and Tropi- 
cal Africa. Liane caca poule. 
5. BERTIERA, Aublet. 
Calyx-tube small, subglobose ; teeth 5, minute, deltoid. Corolla 
funnel-shaped ; teeth 5, lanceolate, imbricated, shorter than the tube. 
Stamens 5, included, inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments very »hort; anthers oblong, with the connective produced beyond 
the cells in an awn. Ovary 2-celled; ovules many; style fusiform, 
entire. Fruit a small dry indehiscent capsule. Seeds numerous, 
minute.— Shrubs with large connate stipules and small flowers in 
terminal panicles with cymose branches. Distrib. Trop. Africa and 
America. Species about a dozen. 
1. B. Zaluzania, Gartn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 392. A low erect shrub, 
with silky branchlets. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, acute, subcoria- 
ceous, distinctly penninerved, 4-6 in. long, glabrous above, glabrescent 
or obscurely silky below ; stipules large, membranous, connate, breaking 
away and leaving a cup. Flowers in peduncled terminal drooping 
panicles \ foot long ; cymes many, lax, 3-4 times dichotomously forked, 
with a flower sessile in each fork. Calyx very silky, in. long ; teeth 
minute, erect, persistent. Corolla silky, ^ in. long; teeth shorter than, 
the tube. Berry dry, size of a small pea. B. rufa and borbonica, DC. 
loc. cit. B. bistipulata, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 166. 
Mauritius, in woods through the island. Also Bourbon. B. bistipulata is a 
shade form, with a broad almost deltoid panicle and oblong stipules an inch 
long. 
6. RANDIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or turbinate ; limb usually nearly truncate. 
Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube funnel-shaped ; throat naked or villose; 
lobes 5, contorted and imbricated in bud. Stamens 5, sessile at the 
throat of the corolla ; anthers acute. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in 
a cell ; style entire or forked. Fruit a two-celled many-seeded berry. 
— Trees or shrubs, erect or scandent, sometimes spinose ; flowers usually 
white or yellow, one or several together in the axils of the leaves. 
Distrib. Tropics, mainly of the Old World. Species 90. 
1. R. heterophylla, Balf. fit. A shrub, glabrous in all its parts 
with angular branches. Leaves short-petioled, subcoriaceous, oblong, 
rounded at both ends, obtuse or emarginate, 3-4 in. long by half as 
broad, varying to lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, J-l foot long, an 
inch or less broad ; stipules short, truncate, connate, forming a per- 
sistent ciliated ring. Flowers 1-4 together in copious axillary cymes on 
£-1 in. peduncles arising from a little above the node. Calyx £ in. long, 
