7 HARDWICKIA BINATA. 
tinged with red; slightly marked with three or four nerves ; 
length from one to three inches, and a little more than half 
of that in breadth. 
Petioles round, smooth, about one-fourth, or one-third the length 
of the leaves. 
Stipules small, cordate, caducous. 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, small, delicate, 
slender, and smooth in every part. 
Flowers scattered, slender, pedicelled, small. 
Bractes minute, caducous. 
Calyx none. 
Petals five, obovate, concave, spreading, somewhat hoary on the 
outside ; inside yellowish ; rather longer than the stamina. 
Filaments ten, alternately shorter, inserted round the base of the 
germ. Anthers incumbent, ovate, with an acute point between 
the lobes. 
Germ oblong. Style ascending. Stigma large, peltate. 
Legume lanceolate, from two to three inches long, two-valved, 
striated lengthwise, opening at the apex. 
Seed solitary in the apex of the legume, and there inserted, cuneate, 
furrowed: posterior edge thin, and somewhat membrana- 
ceous. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This elegant tree is found indigenous on the mountains of the 
Coast of Coromandel, where it grows to a large size, and yields 
timber of an excellent quality for a variety of uses. 
Some beautiful, thriving, young trees are in the Botanic Garden 
at Calcutta, reared from seeds sent from the mountains of Coro- 
mandel, by Dr. Berry of Madras. 
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210. HOPEA ODORATA.* 
GENERIC GHARACTER, 
Calyx beneath, five-leaved: two of them increasing with the cap- 
sule into wings. Corol one-petalled, contorted. Filaments 
ten, inserted on the tube of the corol, alternately two-cleft ; 
Anthers fifteen. Capsule one-celled. Seed solitary. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk erect, four feet in circumference, and high in proportion. 
Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, and adorned 
with many drooping, and expanding bifarious branchlets, 
covered with dark-brown smooth bark. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, drooping, ovate, oblong, 
entire, waved, smooth, shining, deep green on both sides ; 
on the under side there is often a pretty large, single gland 
in the axill of each of the larger veins. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, drooping, composed 
of alternate, bifarious, secund, recurved, villous, ramifica- 
tions, of numerous, small, pale yellow, delightfully fragrant 
flowers. 
Bractes cordate, acute, villous, caducous. 
Calyx beneath, five-leaved: Jeaflets unequal, ovate, villous, perma- 
nent: the two largest increasing into two large, oblong, 
obtuse membranaceous wings, by the time the capsule is full 
grown, 
* Hopea tinctoria of Linnzus is now referred to the genus of Symplocos. Linn. spec. 
plant. edit. Willdenow, 3. p. 1436. 
HOPEA ODORATA. 8 
Corol one-petalled, contorted. Tube short, campanulate. Border 
of five, oblique, sublinear-oblong, spreading divisions, with 
their margins revolute, curled, and somewhat villous. 
Filaments ten, about as long as the tube of the corol, and inserted 
by broad, conical, fleshy bases, into its bottom ; they are 
alternately larger and bifid. Anthers fifteen, two-lobed, with 
a subulate point from the apex of each, or as in Asarum, they 
may be said to adhere to the filaments below their apices. 
Germ above, ovate. Style straight, length of the stamina. Stigma 
simple. 
Capsule ovate, pointed, one-celled, one-valved, of a tender tex- 
ture, closely inveloping a single seed, of the same shape and 
size ; outwardly covered with the permanent calyx ; two of 
the leaflets of which are now enlarged into two, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, tough, membranaceous, nervous wings, many times 
longer than the seeds, 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A single tree, and the only one I have seen, grows in the 
garden of Mr. Dowdeswell near Calcutta, originally from Chitta- 
gong, where it is indigenous. Flowering time the month of March, 
when the air, to a considerable distance, is perfumed with the 
fragrance of its blossoms. Seed ripe in May. 
This tree is nearly allied to Shorea, as well as to Dipterocarpus. 
It differs from the first in having only two of the five leaflets of 
the calyx increasing into wings, and from both, in having a mo- 
nopetalous corol, and only ten filaments, bearing fifteen anthers. 
211. CGARALLIA LUCIDA. 
Carallie of the Telingas. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx six or seven-cleft, superior. Petals six or seven. Stigma 
three-lobed. Berry one-celled, one seeded. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, pointed, serrulate, smooth, 
shining on both sides, from four to five inches long, and two 
or two and a half broad. 
Stipules intrafoliaceous, acute. 
Umbellets axillary, small, rigid, few-flowered, generally three-cleft. 
Calyx above, six or seven-parted, permanent ; divisions acute. 
Petals six or seven, orbicular, scalloped, waved, inserted into the 
divisions of the calyx by short claws. 
Filaments twelve or fourteen, length of the corol, inserted into the 
calyx. Anthers oblong, erect. 
Germ beneath, globular. Style length of the filaments. Stigma 
three-lobed. 
Berry globular, smooth, pulpy, size of a large pea, one-celled, 
crowned with the very entire calyx. 
Seed one, rarely two, reniform. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A small handsome ever-green tree, a native of the lower region 
of the Circar mountains. Flowering time March and April. 
