19 SWIETENIA FEBRIFUGA. 
Panicle very large, terminal, diffuse, bearing great numbers of 
middle-sized, white, inodorous flowers. 
Peduncle and Pedicels round and smooth. 
Bracts very minute. 
Calyx below, five-leaved: Leaflets oval, deciduous. 
Petals five, inverse-egged, obtuse, concave, expanding. 
Nectary not quite half the length of the petals, a little bellied: 
mouth ten-toothed, teeth bifid. 
Filaments ten, very short, inserted just within the mouth of the 
nectary. 
- Anthers oval. 
Germ conical. 
Style thick, tapering. 
Stigma large, targeted, shutting up the mouth of the nectary. 
Capsule egged, large, five-celled, five-valved: 
from the top. 
valvelets gaping 
Receptacle in the centre, large, spongy, five-angled: angles sharp, 
and connected with the sutures of the capsule, between them 
deeply sulcated. 
Seeds many in each cell, imbricated, obliquely wedge-shaped, en- 
larged by along membranaceous wing, inserted at the upper 
point of the wing into a long brown speck, on the upper part 
of the excavations of the receptacle: all the rest of the recep- 
tacle is white. 
This is.a very large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of the 
Rajahmundry Circar, north of Samulcotah and Peddapore. It 
flowers about the end of the cold, or beginning of the hot season. 
Seeds ripen in three or four months after. 
The wood of this tree is of a dull red colour, remarkably hard 
and heavy; itis reckoned by the nativesby far the most durable wood 
they know, on that account it is used for all the wood work in their 
temples, it is also very serviceable for various other purposes. 
The bark is internally of a light red colour; a decoction dyes 
brown of various shades, according as the cloth has been prepared, 
ke. Its taste is a bitter and adstringent conjoined, and very strong, 
particularly the bitter, at the same time not any way nauseous or 
otherwise disagreeable, for the bitter, although strong, is rather 
more palatable than most others I have tasted. 
In the plate the dissected flower is magnified; the fruit of its 
natural size. 
18. GAERTNERA RACEMOSA. 
Gertnera. Schreb. gen. 735. 
Molina racemosa. Cavanill. monad. p. 435. t. 263. 
Hiptage Madablota. Gaertn. sem. 2. p. 169. t. 116. 
Madablota. Banisteria tetraptera. Sonnerat voyage aux Indes, 2 
p. 238. tab.135. 
Banisteria unicapsularis. Lamarck encycl. 1. p. 367. 
Banisteria benghalensis. Linn. spec. plant. 611. 
“Vedal-chittoo of the Telingas. 
Trunk and Branches climbing. Bark covered with light coloured 
scabrous dots. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, waved, pointed, entire, 
smooth, shining; small glands round the under edge of the 
margin, and two larger at its termination in the petiole, about 
four to six inches long and two broad. 
-Raceme terminal, though sometimes from the exterior axills, co- 
rymbe-like while flowering. 
G/AERTNERA RACEMOSA. 20 
Pedicels jointed at the middle, and three-bracted. 
Bracts, a small acute one under the insertion of each pedicel, and 
another smaller at the joint 
Flowers large, nearly white, very beautifully ii and waved, 
very fragrant. 
Calyx below, five-leaved, or to the base five- meee Leaflets oblong, 
permanent; there is only one gland on the whole calyx, it is’ 
large, oblong, smooth, elevated, chesnut-coloured, placed 
partly on the two upper leaflets, and partly on the pedicel, 
permanent. 
Petals five, unequal, irregular, claws short, they are totally reflected 
back towards the raceme: the lower two are oval; the next 
two lateral above orbicular; the superior petal broader, lies 
back over the rest, is beautifully tinged with yellow in the 
middle; all are most beautifully fringed round the margin. 
Filaments ten, of which the lower one is twice the length and thick- 
ness of the rest; all are ascending. 
Anthers egged, equal. 
Germs three, united as it were into one three-lobed body. 
Style single, ascending, about as long as the large stamen. 
Stigma simple, incurved. 
Capsules, from one to three, globular, size of a large pea, one-celled, 
one-valved, not opening, each is enlarged with three unequal 
spreading, membranaceous, wedge-shaped, obtuse wings, be- 
sides a small erect one in the centre. 
Seed single, globular, affixed to the bottom of the capsule. 
It is a large climbing woody shrub, a native of the Circar moun- 
tains. Flowering time the wet and cold season. It is cultivated in 
our gardens all over the coast, on account of the beauty and fra- 
grance of its lowers. 
19. BASSIA LATIFOLIA. 
Mahwah Tree. Transact. of the Society of Bengal, vol. 1. p. 300. 
Ipie of the Telingas. 
Illipay of the Tamuls. 
Oil Tree of the English. 
- Trunk straight, but short, covered with smooth ash-coloured Bark. 
Branches very numerous; the lower spreading horizontally. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, crowded about the extremities of the 
branches, oblong, rigid, smooth above, below somewhat whit- 
ish, from four to eight inches long, and from two to four 
broad. 
Petiole round, about an inch long. 
Stipules none. 
Flowers numerous, crowded from the extremities of the generally 
naked branchlets, peduncled, at all times bowing (bent, with 
the mouth of the flower directly to the ground). 
Peduncles about an inch long, round, thickened, covered with rust- 
coloured down. 
Calyx as in the genus. 
Corol: tube as in the genus; border from seven to fourteen- parted. 
Stamen, Pistil, and Drupe as in the genus. 
Seeds from one to four, generally one or two, oblong, pointed at the 
lower end. 
Is of a middling size, a native of the mountainous parts of the 
coast; casts its leaves during the cold season, they appear again 
