79 ECHITES GRANDIFLORA. 
Albumen thin, light gray. 
Embryo straight. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle long, cylindric, 
superior. 
HOLIGARNA  Bucuanan. 
PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
GENERIG CHARACTER. 
Polygamous. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals five. Nut inferior, 
ovate, cellular, one seeded. Embryo inverse, without albumen. 
282. HOLIGARNA LONGIFOLIA B. 
Cattu-tsjeru, or Katou-tjeroe. Rheed. mal. 4. p. 19. t. 9. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of Chittagong, 
where it blossoms in January. Dr. Buchanan first found the male 
tree in Chittagong, and some years after he found the female (herma- 
phrodite) in Malabar, and gave it the name Holigarna, from its 
appellation in the language of Karnata. He thinks it is the variety 
called Bibo, of the Cattu-tsjeru. (Rheed. mal. 4. t.9.) and says the 
natives of Malabar, by incision, extract an exceedingly acrid juice, 
with which they varnish their targets. I am, however, inclined 
to consider Van Rheede’s Cattu-tsjeru to be this very tree; and his 
Bibo, or Tseejero. vol. 4. p. 20. to be Semecarpus Anacardium. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight ; in a twelve year old tree, male tree, ten inches 
in circumference. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 
patent; height of the whole tree twenty-five feet. In its 
native soil the trunk attains to the thickness of six feet in 
circumference; and the total height of the tree above fifty. 
Leaves alternate, crowded about the ends of the branchlets, short- 
petioled, narrow-cuneiform, entire, acute, smooth on both 
sides, but paler underneath; length from one to two feet, by 
$-6 inches broad: 
Petioles short, and thick, and armed with generally two subulate 
inoffensive incurved (thorn-like) bodies on each side of the 
margin. 
Stipules no other than the last mentioned subulate bodies on the 
petioles. 
MALE. 
Panicles axillary, single, greatly shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers numerous, small, dull white. 
Bractes small, ferruginous. 
Calyx 5-sided ; angles somewhat sharp. 
Corol flat, to the base 5-parted, (or it may be called 5-petalled) ; 
segments oblong, villous. 
Filaments five, shorter than the corol. Anthers incumbent. 
FEMALE HERMAPHRODITE ona separate tree. 
Panicles, bractés, calyx, and corol as in the male. 
Stamina as in the male, but greatly smaller, with minute, seemingly 
abortive anthers. 
Germ inferior, a little hairy ; in it one compressed cell, contain- 
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ing a single compressed ovule, attached to one side of the top 
of iis cell. Styles three, recurved. Stigmas crescent shaped, 
little hairy. 
Nut inferior, naked, exactly ovate, a little compressed, size of a 
large olive, smooth, when ripe yellow, one-celled, evalvular. 
Shell rather thick, and contains between its laminz numerous 
cells, filled with a black, rather thick, acrid fluid, as in the 
common Marking Nut, or Anacardium. 
Seed conform to the nut. Jntegument single, membranaceous. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. Cotyledons equal, ovate, 
Corcle lateral. Radicle 
oblong, inverse, attached to one edge of the cotyledons con- 
yellowish. Plumula hairy, acute. 
siderably below their apex, and corresponding with the 
attachment of the ovule in the germ. 
MARLEA.* 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Galyx 6-8-toothed, superior. Petals 6-8. Germ inferior, 2-celled. 
Cells one-seeded, attachment superior. Drupe with 2-celled 
nut. Embryo inverse, furnished with albumen. 
283. MARLEA BEGONIFOLIA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Marlea the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous, 
erows to the size of a small tree ; yielding timber employed by 
the natives in the construction of their houses. 
the month of April; seed ripe in July. 
In its natural character it approaches near to Alangium; the 
Flowering time 
number of stamina, and internal structure of the germ and drupe, 
are, however, so different as to induce me to consider it sufficiently 
distinct, to form a separate genus, which I do under its vernacular 
name Marlea. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, unequally cordate, (as in the Begonze,) 
entire, or lobate, acuminate, smooth, five, or more nerved; 
length 4-8 inches, by 3-5 broad. 
Petioles round, a little villous, about an inch long. 
Stipules none. 
Peduncles axillary, length of the petioles, dichotomous, many- 
flowered. 
Flowers of a middling size, short-pedicelled ; petals white. 
Calyx superior, small, 6-8 toothed. 
Petals 6-8, linear, recurved. 
Filaments eight, short, flat, hairy, inserted within the petals on a 
glandular hemispherical body, which crowns the germ. 
Anthers linear, very long. 
Germ inferior, 2-celled, with one ovule in each, attached to the 
top of the axis. Style length of the stamina. Stigma large, 
4-toothed. 
Drupe oval, obtuse-pointed, size of a small cherry, pulp in small 
quantity, but soft, and dark-coloured ; round the base of the 
* Stylidium. Lour. cochin. p. 220. R.B. 
