AW MORINDA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight, with few erect branches. Bark light, ash-coloured. 
Height of the whole plant when six years old only about 
seven feet. 
Leaves opposite, or single when a peduncle occupies the place of 
the other (as in M. citrifolia and latifolia,) subsessile, re- 
curved, lanceolate, bullate, smooth, shining, entire, length 
about six inches, and less than two in breadth. 
Stipules opposite, subcordate, interfoliaceous, remaining long after 
their respective leaves drop. 
Peduncles solitary, short, seemingly terminal when they begin to 
blossom, but soon after the branchlet shoots out from between 
each peduncle, and its respective opposite leaf. 
Heads solitary, globular, many (from 50 to 100) flowered. 
Flowers pure white, in size and shape like those of the common 
jasmine. 
Calyx only an almost entire marginal ring round the base of the 
tube of the corol. 
Corol funnel-shaped. 
Filaments very short, inserted rather below the middle of the tube 
of the corol. Anthers linear, hid in the middle of the tube. 
Stigma exert, two-lobed. 
Berries in general distinct, but a small proportion of them only 
comes to perfection ; sessile, obovate, size of a large pea, 
succulent ; deep shining black, with very dark coloured 
pulp. 
Seeds four, each two-celled, with the inner cell larger and empty. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This elegant shrub was found at Chittagong by Dr. Buchanan, 
and from thence sent to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1798, 
where it blossoms in March, and the seeds ripen in May. Its root 
is used to dye with in like manner as that of M. citrifolia.: 
REFERENCES. 
Fig. 1. A flower opened lengthways, rather magnified. 
. The receptacle with all the germs abortive, but two. 
Section of a berry. 
One of the seed, these three of the natural size. 
Transverse section ofa seed ; athe seed: b the empty cell. 
Perpendicular section of the same. ‘These two are 
magnified. 
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238. CGEDRELA TOONA. 
Leaflets from 6 to 12 pair, opposite, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, entire. Panicles terminal. Filaments inserted into five 
glands which embrace the sessile germ. 
Cuveraca, Asvatic research. 4. p. 281. and 6. p. 352. 
Toon, Tunna, Tun, or Tuni of the Hindoos and Bengalese. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk erect, often of a very large size, and height, though I have 
only seen small trees in the vicinity of Calcutta. Bark 
smooth and gray. Branches numerous, forming a large shady 
head. 
Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate, drooping, from 12 to 18 
inches long. Leaflets from 6 to 12 pair, opposite, or nearly 
so, short-petioleted, obliquely broad, lanceolate, tapering to a 
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long sharp point, margin slightly waved, smooth on both 
sides ; length from two to six inches. 
Petioles, and Petiolets round and smooth. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles terminal, about as long as the leaves, drooping: com- 
posed of numerous, smooth, diverging, subdivided rami- 
fications. 
Bractes minute, deciduous. 
Flowers numerous, small, white, and possess a sweet fragrance, 
like that of fresh honey. 
Calyx, five-parted, expanding. 
Corol, petals five, oblong, keeled on the back, margins ciliate, 
apexes incurved over the stamina. 
Nectary, five, large, hairy, orange coloured glands round the 
base of the germ. 
Filaments five, erect, shorter than the petals, inserted into the 
five glands of the nectary. Anthers sagittate, bent in toward 
the stigma. 
Pistil, Germ oblong. Style length of the stamina. Stigma peltate, 
five-sided, 
Capsule oblong, rather larger than a field bean, five-celled, five- 
valved, valves opening from the apex, and fall off with the 
seeds when they are ripe. 
Seeds several in each cell, imbricated; both ends, and outer edge 
enlarged by a thin membranaceous wing ; their insertion on 
the inner edges of the upper end of the five angles of the 
receptacle. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large, beautiful, timber tree ; a native of Bengal. Leaves 
deciduous, about the beginning of the cool season; and appear 
again, with the flowers, in February; and the seeds are ripe in 
May and June. 
The wood of this tree is very like mahogany, but lighter, and 
not so close in the grain. It is much used for furniture, and for 
various other purposes. The bark is powerfully astringent, and 
though not bitter, it has been found a good medicine in the cure 
of remitting and intermitting fevers ; particularly when joined 
with a small portion of the powdered seed of Guilandina Bonduccella, 
(Cutkaletchie of the Bengalese,) which is a very powerful bitter. 
EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 
Fig. 1. A flower in its natural state of expansion, magnified. 
2. The same with the petals removed, which shows the 
nectarial glands, kc. 
3. The capsule, natural size. 
4. The same open, with the two front valves removed, ex- 
hibiting one cell (on the left) with the seeds, and 
another empty, which exposes one of the five sides of 
the receptacle ; the dots on its upper end shew the in- 
sertions of the seeds. 
5. Aseed. The last two are magnified. 
239. ASCLEPIAS TINGENS. 
Shrubby, twining, smooth. Leaves cordate. Unmbels subaxil- 
lary, proliferous. Corol, salver-shaped ; inside of the tube with 
five double ciliated ridges. Stigma globular, half hid. 
