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44, EPIDENDRUM PENDULUM. 
Root: many fleshy fibres, like those of the two last, but they issue 
from one head. 
Stem none. 
Leaves radical, three to five, alternate, two-faced, &c. as in the two 
former; only that they are from one and a half, to three feet 
long, and about an inch and a half broad. 
Scape radical, about two feet long, the lower three or four inches 
are involved in chaffy sheaths, the rest forms the raceme, or 
flower-bearing part, which is perfectly pendulous, many- 
flowered. 
Bracts minute, one-flowered. 
Petals lanced, spreading, equal, striated with rose-colour and yel- 
low. 
Nectary red, lower lip three-parted. 
This is also a parasitic plant, a native of the same places, and 
flowering at the same time. 
It differs but little from the Epidendrum aloifolium Linn. Kans- 
jiram maravara of the Hortus Malabaricus. 
45. FERREOLA BUXIFOLIA. 
Ehretia ferrea. Willden. phytogr.1. p. 4. tab. 2. f. 2. 
Pisonia? buxifolia. Rottboell in nov. act. Hafniens. 2. p.536. tab. 
Hifi: 2: 
Pishanna of the Telingas. 
Trumbilli of the Tamuls. (Koenzg.) 
Trunk irregular. Bark dark rust-colour. 
Branches very numerous, and very irregular. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, entire, very smooth, shining, 
firm, about half or three-quarters of an inch long, by half an 
inch broad. 
MALE TREE. 
Flowers from the axills of the lower leaves, three-fold, sessile, white, 
smaller than the female. 
Calyx three-cleft. 
Corol three-cleft, outside hairy. 
Filaments six, short, inserted round a semi-globose receptacle. 
Anthers oblong. 
FEMALE TREE. 
Flowers axillary, single, sessile, very small, white. 
Calyx and Corol as in the male. 
Germ oval. 
Style short. 
Stigma three-notched. 
Berry round, smooth, red, pulpy, size of a large pea. 
Seeds two, on one side flat, on the other round.* 
* Description by Doctor Koenig. 
Flores mascult. 
Calyx monophyllus, parum ventricosus, pilosus, trifidus: laciniz ovate, acute, erect, 
tubo breviores : tertia brevior, obtusior. 
Corolla monopetala, tubulosa, glabra, subcarnosa, viridi-flavescens. Limbus trifidus : laciniz 
erect, acute, extus pilis longioribus albis adpressis hirsute, intus nude. 
Filamenta quinque, raro plura, receptaculo inserta, erecta, tubo corolle multo breviora. 
Anthera oblong, acute, erect, albe, filamentis longiores. 
Pistillum nullum. 
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Among the mountains, this grows to a small tree ; but in the low 
countries it is only a shrub. Flowers during the hot season. 
The berries, when ripe, are universally eaten, and are very well 
tasted. 
The wood is dark coloured, remarkably hard and durable, and 
where its size will admit, is employed for such uses as require the 
most durable, heavy wood. 
46. DIOSPYROS MELANOXYLON. 
Tumida of the Telingas. 
Trunk erect, in large trees, from twenty to twenty-five feet to the 
branches, and about eight or ten in circumference. Bark sca- 
brous, or deeply cracked, somewhat spongy, colour a mixture 
of gray and black in irregular strata. 
Branches very irregular, numerous, rigid, forming a large, spread- 
ing, shady head; young shoots very downy. 
Leaves nearly opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, when 
young very downy, when old pretty smooth, about four inches 
long, and one and a half broad. 
Stipules none. 
MALE TREE. 
Peduncle axillary, single, short, bearing three or four small, whitish 
flowers, supported by short, bowing pedicels. 
Bracts: a small one at the insertion of each pedicel, and one or two 
still smaller, pressing the calyx. ; 
Calyx and Corol as in the genus. 
Filaments generally twelve or thirteen, short, inserted into a recep- 
tacle. 
Anthers linear, erect. 
Pistil none. 
HERMAPHRODITE TREE. 
Flowers rather larger than the male, axillary, single, nearly sessile. 
Bract: a small one pressing the calyx. 
Calyx always five-cleft, downy. 
Corol five-cleft. 
Filaments about ten, short, inserted into a receptacle, between the 
germ and the flower. 
Anthers small, seemingly steril. 
Styles three, nearly erect. 
Stigmas bifid. 
Berry round, size of a small apple, yellow, pulpy. 
Seeds, from two to eight ripen, immersed in the pulp, kidney-form, 
sharp on the inner straight edge. 
This ebony tree is a native of the woody and mountainous parts 
of the Circars ; it grows to be very large, particularly the male tree, 
the wood of which is most esteemed. It casts its leaves in the cold 
Flores feminei. 
Calyx tubulosus, obsolete quinquangularis, hirsutiusculus, carnosus, quinquedentatus, api- 
cibus parum incuryatis. 
Corolla ut in mare. 
Germen lineari-oblongum, in Stylum calyce longiorem desinens. Stigma planum, stellatim 
divisum in lobos, plerumque quatuor, parvos. 
- Bacca subglobosa, cum acumine prominulo, glabra, aurantiaco-rubra, magnitudine pisi ma- 
Joris, basi cincta calyce persistenti, patelleformi, glabro. Semina duo, magna, extus 
conyexa, intus plana. 
