13 KYDIA FRATERNA. 
Germ ovate. Style as long as the staminiferous tube. Stigma three- 
lobed, even with the mouth of the tube. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the Circar mountains, where it grows to be a larger 
tree than the first species. Flowering time the rainy season. 
The ripe seed-vessel was not seen, but the structure and con- 
tents of the germ indicate one similar to that of the first species. 
CAREYA.* 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx simple, 4-tooth’d, superior. Petals four. Berry with many 
seeds, scattered through its pulp. 
217. CGAREYA HERBACEA. 
Herbaceous. Flowers peduncled. Exterior filaments longer, and 
sterile. 
Bhoomi Darimba, its Sanscrit name. 
Bhooi dalim of the Bengalese. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root perennial, ligneous. 
Stems searce any, but several herbaceous shoots rise annually from 
the root ; they are short, round, and smooth. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, obovate-cuneate, serrulate, smooth 
on both sides ; length from 4 to 8 inches. 
Racemes \ateral, short, supporting a few, large, remote, beautiful 
flowers. 
Bractes lanceolate, two of which always embrace the calyx laterally. 
Calyx above, four-parted: divisions oval, permanent. 
Petals four, expanding, oblong, concave, longer than the fertile 
stamina, and inserted on or into their united fleshy base. 
Filaments numerous ; the exterior longer, and sterile; all are firmly 
united at the base, and with the corol drop off in one body, 
leaving the rim of insertion, which surrounds the bottom of 
the calyx on the inside, particularly conspicuous, on account 
of its large, elevated, crenulate, inner margin. 
Germ oval, smooth, having four distinct cells. Style nearly as long 
as the stamina. Stigma enlarged, and obscurely 4-lobed. 
Berry globular, size of a medlar, and of the same texture, and 
colour; and like it, crowned with the permanent calyx and 
part of the style: in the ripe fruit there are no distinct parti- 
tions to be found. 
Seeds numerous, uniform, nestling in a considerable quantity of 
greenish, fleshy pulp; and often vegetating in the berry, 
while it appears fresh on the outside. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the Rungpore district, in the province of Bengal, 
where Mr. W. Carey discovered it, and sent plants to the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, where they blossom in February, and ripen 
their seeds in four months thereafter. 
* Named after its discoverer, Mr. William Carey, a good botanist, and promoter of 
natural history in general. 
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218. CAREYA ARBOREA. 
Arboreous. Flowers sessile. Inner filaments shorter and sterile. 
Pelou. Rheed. mal. 3. p. 31. tab. 36. 
Cumbie of the Telingas, 
Pootta-tanni-marum of the Tamuls. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk erect. Bark scabrous: outwardly of a dark rust-colour ; 
inwardly a deep red, and fibrous. Branches numerous, and 
spreading ; their bark smoother than that of the trunk. 
Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, short-petioled, 
obovate, running down on the short petioles to the base, 
slightly serrate, smooth, from six to twelve inches long, and 
from three to six broad. 
Spikes terminal, short, thick, few-flowered. 
Flowers large, of a pale greenish yellow colour. 
Bractes threefold, embracing the base of the germ. 
Calyx above, one-leaved, cup-shaped, four-toothed, partly per- 
manent. 
Petals four, oblong, many times longer than the calyx, and inserted 
on its inside. 
Filaments numerous, as long as the petals: the interior are shorter 
and sterile ; they are all united at the base, and inserted into 
the bottom of the calyx. Anthers oval. 
Germ beneath. Style length of the filaments ; more or less of it is 
permanent. 
Berry very large, globular, smooth, fleshy. 
Seeds numerous, somewhat compressed, oblong, or oval, scattered 
through the pulp of the fruit. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large tree; a native of the valleys amongst the mountains of 
the Northern Circars, as well as of various other mountainous 
parts of India. Leaves deciduous about the beginning of the cool 
season, November; and come out again with the flowers in 
March. 
The wood of this tree is nearly of the colour of mahogany, but 
not so hard, nor so close in the grain. The natives make large 
mortars of it to bruise various kinds of oil-seeds in. 
The bark is composed of long, tough fibres, of which strong, 
durable ropes are made. Match-lock-men also employ it, as well 
as that of Bauhinia parviflora, to make their matches of. 
219. ERYTHRINA ARBORESCENS. 
Subarboreous. Trunk and larger branches prickly. Leaves ter- 
nate, unarmed: /eaflets reniform-deltoid, entire. Racemes straight. 
Bractes three-flower'd. Calyx truncate, entire. Legume pedicelled, 
fine-pointed, villous, 6-8-seeded. 
