that work, much of what relates to the description of the 

 male flowers of this plant, and all that is said of its female 

 flowers, has been gleaned. From the same source we 



andent, woody plant, common 

 , Silhet, &c., and the eastern 



th _ .. 



the forests ofC^ 



fronti 



of Bengal 



I 



to "^"o 



the for 



it 



known by the 



vernacular name of Dolea Lat ; and in the latter it is 



called Lat Cadam 

 are beautiful and frag 



scandent Nauclea). The flowers 



and 



appear 



times 



Male, Panicles 



throughout the year ; but they ripen best about or before 

 the beginning of the rains." 



4 



By the kind permission of Dr. Wallich, we subjoin an 

 extract from Dr. Roxburgh's MS. Flora. 



r 

 J 



Stem stout, and woody, covered with darli^-coloured, 

 scabrous bark, the whole extending to a great length by 

 climbing up and over trees, &c. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 cordate, entire, smooth, from 4 to 8 inches long, by from 

 3 to 6 broad. Petioles half the length of the leaves, round, 

 coloured. Stipules axillary, solitary, large, ovate, oblong, 

 smooth, of a dark ferruginous colour, 

 from the old axillae, composed of numerous small globular 

 heads of minute, yellow, very fragrant flowers. Bradece 

 in pairs, at the divisions of the panicle, oval and oblong, 

 coloured like the stipulee. Perianthium 4-leaved, leaflets 

 oblong, concave, subcucullate over the anthers. Filaments 

 very broad and short; anthers cordate. Germ none, but 

 a columnar-headed gland in its place. — Female on a dif- 

 ferent plant. Peduncles from the axillae of the former 

 leaves, as in the male, generally solitary, once or twic 

 dichotomous, with a large globular head of small, beauti- 

 ful, purple, fragrant, pedicelled florets on each division. 

 Bradece as in the male. PeriantJiimn 1 -leaved, 4-parted; 



Stamens none. Germ superior, 

 oblong, 1 -celled, containing one ovulum, attached to the 

 bottom of the cell ; style short ; 



The succulent caly.v covers a single oblong nut, which has 

 an exterior succulent coat, and an interior thin hard one. 

 The testa is membranous. Albumen, while the seed is 



segments often unequal. 



stigma lateral, oblong. 



recent, thin and succulent. Embryo inverted. 

 ledons 2, oblong. Radicle cylindrical, superior. 



Coty- 



We should observe, that both Roxburgh and Dr. Blumc 



