55 AMOORA CUCULLATA. 
Filaments none. Anthers from six to eight, sessile, round the 
inside of the nectary, and they seem abortive. 
Germ none, but a clavate gland in its place. 
HERMAPHRODITE TREE. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, from 3 to 6-flowered. 
Flowers larger than the male, in other respects the same. 
Calyx, corol, and nectary as in the male Anthers always six. 
Germ superior, 3-sided, ovate, covered with minute stellate scales, 
3-celled, with two vertically placed ovula in each, attached to 
the middle of the axis. Style none. 
lobes somewhat 2-lobed. 
Capsule nearly round, as large as a middling-sized apple, 3-lobed, 
3-celled, 3-valved. Cortex thick, firm, and of a tough, fleshy 
texture. 
Stigma large, 3-lobed ; 
Seeds solitary, of a roundish-trigonal shape, three-fourths covered 
with a fleshy bright orange-coloured aril. Integument under 
the aril smooth, and of a chestnut colour. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Plumula 2-lobed. 
Radicle semilunar, superior. 
259. PODALYRIA BRACTEATA. 
Shrubby. Leaves simple, oval. Peduncles axillary, once or 
twice bifid, ultimate divisions one-flowered, with a pair of large 
opposite roundish, many-nerved bractes hiding the calyx, and a 
similar pair at the forks of the peduncles. 
Goopree the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where it is 
found indigenous in the forests: growing to the size of a 
large bushy shrub. Flowering in May and June; and the 
seed ripen in December and January. 
DESCRIPTION. 
T ender shoots columnar, and clothed with a few thinly scattered 
hairs. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, oval, entire, obtuse, smooth, 
and beautifully reticulate with slender veins: length 3-6 
inches, by 2-4 broad. 
Petioles from half an inch, to an inch and a half long, a little 
hairy. 
Stipules ovate, many-nerved. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, once, or twice-bifid, each ultimate 
division one-flowered. 
Bractes in pairs at the divisions of the peduncles, and one pair, 
the largest, embrace each flower ; all are round, or oval, and 
many-nerved. 
Flowers large, white, perfectly papilionaceous. 
Calyx bowl-shaped, hairy on the outside; mouth unequally 
5-toothed: caducous. 
Banner very broad, deeply emarginate, short-clawed. Wings 
falcate, obtuse, fine-clawed, length of the banner. Keel 
2-petalled, but their lower margins united, length and shape 
of the wings. 
Filaments 10, distinct to their insertion on the receptacle round 
the base of the germ, subulate, smooth, nearly as long as 
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the pistillum, ascending in a gentle curve. Anthers ovate- 
oblong, erect. 
Germ lanceolate, smooth, one-celled, containing 3 ovula attached 
to the upper margin. Style subulate. 
Legumes obliquely-oblong, taper equally at each end, apex acumi- 
nate, and somewhat recurved, one-celled, 2-valved, smooth, 
out-side dark-brown; within pretty smooth, and whitish : 
3-4 inches long, by one inch and a-half broad. 
Seeds two or three, large, and very unequal, colour a dark brown. 
Stigma acute. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo as in other Leguminose. 
HEYNEA. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, MELIACE. Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Petals five. Nectary cylindric, with the anthers 
attached round the inside of its mouth. Germ superior, 
2-celled, with two ovula in each cell. Capsule one-celled, 
2-valved, one-seeded. Seed arilled. Embryo inverse, without 
albumen. 
260. HEYNEA TRIJUGA. 
Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets three pair. Panicles axillary, 
long-peduncled. 
Heynia trijuga. Bot. magaz. 1738. 
Yeacushi, of the Nepaulese. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Nepaul; from thence, in 1802, Dr. Buchanan 
sent seeds of this tree to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta under the 
vernacular name Yeacushi, where in seven years, the young trees 
were about fifteen and twenty feet high; with much the habit of 
the walnut tree.. Flowering time, in the Botanic Garden, March; 
seed ripe in October. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight, in our young trees of six years growth thick as a 
man’s thigh. Bark dark ash-coloured, and pretty smooth. 
Branches few ; young shoots marked with scabrous spots. 
Leaves unequally pinnate, alternate, from one to two feet long. 
Leaflets opposite, short-petioled, two or three pair, ovate- 
oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth, length from four to 
eight inches; and from two to four broad. 
Petioles round, smooth, swelled at the insertion of the leaflets. 
Petiolets channelled, less than an inch long. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, smooth, erect. 
Flowers numerous, small, white. 
Bractes minute, caducous. 
Calyx one-leaved 5-toothed, permanent. 
Petals five, cuneate-lanceolate, spreading. 
