53 CORYPHEA TALIERA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The leaves of this tree are employed by the natives to write 
on with their pointed steel bodkins, and are also split to tie the 
rafters of their houses together, for they are found to be strong 
and durable. ; 
Except when in flower, or seed, this tree is scarcely to be 
distinguished from Borassus SJtabelliformis, or Tal of the Bengalese. 
257. TACCA INTEGRIFOLIA. 
Leaves oblong, entire ; petioles and scapes scabrous. 
Tacca integrifolia. Bot. Magaz. 1488. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Found by Mr. I. R. indigenous in the valleys amongst the hills 
behind Islamabad, Chittagong. From thence it has been introduced 
into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms during 
the hot and rainy season: and the seed ripens in three and four 
months after. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root an oblong curved tuber, of a middling size, with wiry fibres 
from its sides ; inward colour pale yellow ; perennial, 
Stem none, or very trifling. 
Leaves radical, petioled, recurvate, oblong, entire, acuminate, 
smooth, strongly marked with parallel veins, and somewhat 
bullate ; 8-16 inches long, by 4-8 broad. 
Petioles shorter than the leaves, sheathing at the base, and above 
that a groove down the inside, the whole considerably rough 
with small visible sharp points. 
Scapes axillary, solitary, about as long as the petioles, and rough 
like them, cylindric, direction from erect to diverging, and 
often variously bent. 
Involucre 4-leaved, besides many filiform filaments which are 
mixed amongst the pedicels. £xtertor two (leaves of the 
involucre) stem-clasping, reflexed, broad-ovate-lanceolate, 
finely acuminate, many-nerved, from two to three inches 
long, by 14 broad. Interior pair greatly longer, broad- 
petioled, ascending in form of a vault over the flowers, oval- 
ventricose, many nerved, smooth and coloured ; length, 
petioles included, about 5 inches, by 3 broad. 
Flowers 4-8, long-pedicelled, large, at first nearly erect, but on 
the second day of ex pansion drooping, colour a mixture of 
greenish purple and yellow ; about the same number of 
very long, filiform, smooth, pendulous bodies are found 
interspersed among the pedicels. 
Calyx superior, one-leaved, base cup-shaped ; border consists 
of six large coloured segments ; extertor 3 rather narrower, 
more pointed, and less deeply coloured: inner three oblong, 
obtuse, or emarginate ; soon after expansion they become 
completely reflex. 
Corol no other than the segments of the border of the calyx, 
which resembles one very much. 
Filaments (petals of Forster) 6, inserted about the middle of the 
tube of the calyx, they resemble little conic vaults. Anthers 
on the inside of the interior wall of the vaults. 
Germ inferior, clavate, 6-ribbed, one-celled, and contains nu- 
merous ovula, attached to three, bifid, parietal receptacles. 
TACCA INTEGRIFOLIA. 54 
Style short. Stigma 3-lobed ; Lobes large, coloured, and emar- 
ginate on the exterior edge. 
Berry oblong, fleshy, an inch and a half in length, by one broad, 
six-sharp-ribbed, crowned with three semilunar marks, the 
remains of part of the calyx, one-celled. 
Seeds numerous, attached to three divided parietal receptacles, 
reniform, ribbed. Integument single, tough, dark-brown. 
AMOORA.* 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER MELIACE&. Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx three, or five-parted. Petals three. Nectary globular, with 
the sessile anthers attached to its inside. Capsule superior, 
3-celled, 3-valved. Seeds solitary, arilled., 
258. AMOORA CUCULLATA. 
Polygamous. Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets opposite 
2-4 pair, obtuse. Hermaphrodite Peduncles axillary, few-flowered ; 
male panicled. 
Amor, or Amoor of the Bengalese. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A tree of a considerable size, but of very slow growth, a 
native of the Delta of the Ganges. Flowering time the latter 
part of the rainy, and beginning of the cold season. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk in young trees straight, with few branches: the bark ash 
coloured, and smooth : young shoots also smooth. 
Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, from 6 to 18 inches long. 
Leaflets opposite, two, three, or four pair, short-petioled, 
obliquely-ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, unequally divided by the 
nerve, polished on both sides, and of a firm texture ; 
margins entire, from three to six inches long. The terminal 
leaflet is often cowled at the base, as represented in the 
drawing at a, hence the specific name. 
Petioles nearly round, and pretty smooth. 
Stipules none. 
MALE TREE. 
Panicles axillary, solitary, drooping about as long as the leaves ; 
ramifications numerous, diverging. 
Flowers numerous, small, yellow. 
Bractes a small obscure scale, under each division of the panicle ; 
and two press the calyx laterally. 
Calyx small, one-leaved, 3-toothed. The two bractes while they 
remain, make it appear 5-parted. 
Petals three, oval, concave, pressed to the nectary. 
Nectary round-turbinate, with contracted triangular opening on 
the apex. 
* This genus, belonging to the natural order Meliacee, seems allied to Cupania, 
and Guarea, from which it may be readily known by the shape of the nectary, as well 
‘as the number of petals and stamina. 
