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GRISLEA tomentosa. 
Downy-leaved Grislea. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GRISLEA. (Flores polypetali.) Cal. tubuloso-campanulatus 4-(6) 
dentatus coloratus persistens, Pet. 4. (6) minutissima. Stam. longissima 
ascendentia; anth. subrotunde. Caps. globosa substipitata, calyce: 
brevior 1-loc. polysperma receptaculo magno. rutex ramis parallelis 
- vimineis; folia disticha; flores in corymbis axillaribus confertis oppositis 
secundi, sursdm flexi. Jussieu. gen. 331. (Char. ad GRrisLEAM secun-~ 
dam solam confectus.) Interdim additur floris partibus. 
G. tomentosa, foliis sessilibus subtis tomentosis corymbis (cymis) axilla- 
ribus patulis. Willd. sp. pl. 2.321. : 
Grisiea tomentosa. “Roxb. corom. 1. 29. t. 31. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 2. 
347. . 
Woodfordia floribunda. Satish. Parad. Lond. 42. 
Lythrum fruticosum. Lin. sp. pl. 1.641. Andrews’s reposit. 467. 
Vrutex ramosus, erectus: rami villosi, bifaridm foliost. Folia opposita, 
cordato-lanceolata, interstitiis longiora, divaricata, obscure viridia, venosa, 
subtis tomentosa, subsessilia petiolo’fereé obsoleto, 2-uncialia, % partes uncie 
lata. lores cymost, miniato-coccinec : pedunculi 5-15-flori, in foliis supernis 
axillares, solitarii, folio breviores ; pedicelli calyxque villosiusculi. Cal. cla- 
vato-tubulosus, semuncialis, subassurgens, ore fundi nectariferi extis annulato- 
rotuberans, 6-multifidus, ad furcam cujusque divisure notatus tuberculo 
sphacelato nervum externé terminante et bast petali membranacet parvi lanceo- 
‘att corolle 6-multipetale opposito. Stam. 8-20, uncialia, equalia, assur- 
entia, fundo nectarifero adnata: anth. 2-loculares, aie. peltato- 
incumbentes. Germ. sessile, elongate oblongum, teretiusculum ; stylus erectus, 
Jilamentis 2-8-plo crassior ; stig. simplex. p 
In point of ornament, this shrub seems to us in some sort 
to fill in the hothouse, the same place that the Fucusta 
coccinea does in the other departments of the garden. 
Native of the hills and valleys of the northern provinces 
of the Carnatic, where it flowers during the cold and at the 
beginning of the hot season; with us from April to May. 
The calyx is of a bright scarlet colour, permanent, and. 
serves as a covering to the seed-vessel, by ‘aba the beauty 
of the plant is considerably prolonged in India; but here 
the seed is seldom perfected, and the calyx decays sooner. 
Dr. Roxburgh tells us, that its appellation in the Telinga 
dialect is Seringie, and that he does not know any use that 
is made of any part of the shrub. 
