inter dentes stamineos, sessiles, hisce breviores, erecte, oblonge, 2-loculares, 
pilosule. Ovarium parvum, ovatum, tubulo appendiculari corolle inclusum, 
5-loculare? 5-spermum? ovulis erectis? Stylus filiformis, longitudine fila- 
mentorum. Stigma capitatum, carnosum, intra antheras latens. Fructus 
haud visus. Wallich 1, c. 
Columna staminum cylindracea, petalorum longitudine, apice antheras 10 
sessiles gerens, dentibus totidem. stellatim patentibus interjectis. Antheree 
oblorge, connectivo luteo lucido carnoso po loculis parvis in facie con- 
nective sitis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Discus cylindricus, conicus, 
basin styli ambiens. Ovarium minimum, depressum, 5-loculare, loculis dis- 
permis ; ovulis ascendentibus, uno supra alterum. 
“ My acquaintance with this shrub is limited to some 
living individuals in the Honourable Company's Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, which were sent from the mountains 
near Silhet, by Francis de Silva, in 1825, and which blos- 
somed soon afterwards in February and July. I have 
never received any dried specimens of the plant, nor have 
I seen the fruit; Í am unable, therefore, to determine the 
genus with certainty. It seems to be nearly allied to 
Trichilia. The leaves are neither dotted, nor have they 
any aromatic smell; the pinne have sometimes a small 
additional leaflet or appendix attached to or between their 
bases." 
Such is the account given of this plant by Dr. Wallich, 
by whom it was brought to England in 1828, and presented 
to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden it flowered 
in March 1830, It is a tender stove plant. 
We quite agree with our learned friend in considering 
this a doubtful species of Turrea. The curious disk or 
series of barren stamens is especially deserving of atten- 
tion; but we know not how far its presence may be com- 
mon among Meliacee, and the want of acquaintance with 
the fruit renders us unwilling at present to create a new 
genus. We leave the question unsettled the more willingly, 
because we know it will be better determined by M. de 
Cambessédes, who is now occupied with the reconstruction 
of the order, 
JL. 
