81 MARLEA BEGONIFOLIA. 
obtuse point may be traced the minute remains of the calyx. 
Nut single, conform to the drupe, brittle, though hard, black, 
2-celled, grooved on the sides, apex transversely s-toothed. 
Seed solitary, oval, flattened. Integument single, thin. 
Albumen conform to the seed, soft and oily. 
Embryo inverse, nearly as extensive as the perisperm. Cotyledons 
ovate-cordate, obtuse. Radicle superior, oval. 
XANTHOPHYLLUM R. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, CAPPARIDE&, Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 5-leaved. CGorol 5-petalled, sub-papilionaceous. Germ su- 
perior, pedicelled, one-celled. Ovula a few, on two opposite 
parietal receptacles. Berry one-seeded. Embryo transverse, 
without albumen. 
284. XANTHOPYHLLUM VIRENS. 
Panicles interfoliaceous and terminal. Germ 4-seeded. 
Gundee, of the Bengalese. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large timber tree, a native of the thick forests of Si/het, where 
it blossoms in March; and the seed ripen in June and July. The 
wood said to be remarkably hard and useful to the natives. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Branches and branchlets very numerous, and much crowded, smooth. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from oblong to lanceolar, entire, 
ofa firm texture, and polished: length six inches, and from 
one and a half to two anda half broad. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles terminal, and between the leaves (internodal,) very nume- 
rous, and pretty much crowded with flowers; in general 
they are shorter than the leaves, and every part smooth. 
Flowers numerous, rather small, colour a mixture of pink and 
yellow, generally solitary, pretty long-pedicelled. 
Bractes tern at the base of each solitary pedicele, small, ensiform, 
villous, caducous. 
Calyx 5-leafed, rather unequal, the lower two and superior one 
being smaller. 
Petals five, the superior and lateral four are nearly equal, sub-spa- 
tulate-falcate ; the upper two form what may be called the 
vexillum ; the fifth or lower one (carina), boat-shaped, ungui- 
culate, and pink-coloured. 
Filaments eight, incurved, nearly equal, shorter than the corol, 
and hairy ; four of them are inserted on the claws of the 
upper four petals, éwo on the claws of the lower (the carina), 
and the remaining fwo into the receptacle, between the two 
petals which form the vexillum and the two wings. Anthers 
oval. 
Germ superior, short-pedicelled, the insertion of which is embraced 
by a 7-angled, nectarial cup, round, ribbed, a little hairy, one- 
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celled, and contains four ovula, attached two and two, to two 
opposite, sub-parietal receptacles, near the base of the cell. 
Style length of the stamina, toward the apex incurved. Stigma 
slightly 2- lobed. 
Berry globular, short-pedicelled, of a firm fleshy texture, when 
ripe olive-coloured, and about the size of a pigeon’s egg, one- 
celled. 
Seed solitary, nearly round ; attachment lateral. Integument single, 
rather thick and brownish. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo transverse, green. 
equal. 
Cotyledons two, conform to the seed, 
Radicle lateral, truncate, lodged immediately within 
the umbilicus of the seed, and pointing to it. 
XANTHOPHYLLUM FLAVESCENS R. 
Panicles axillary and terminal. Germs 8-10-seeded. Two glands 
on the back of the leaves near the base. 
Agensak, of the Bengalese. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large tree, a native of the hilly parts of the province of 
Chittagong: where it blossoms in May, and is so very like the 
former species, virens, that 1 was for some time inclined to con- 
sider them only varieties of one species ; but attentive examina- 
tions made at various times, give me reason to think they are suf- 
ficiently distinct. In the former, virens, the leaves continue green 
when dry, and are destitute of the two small, hollow glands on ° 
the base of the lower pair of veins, one on each side of the lower 
end of the rib, or nerve, which particularly mark flavescens. The 
panicles, except those that terminate the twigs, are in this perfectly 
axillary ; in virens far above the axils, and their insertions accom- 
panied by two or three vertically situate knobs, or buds, as in some 
species of Capparis, &c. In virens the germ has never more than 
four ovula, inserted by pairs on opposite sides near the bottom of 
the cell: while in flavescens there are from eight to twelve ovula in 
the germ, inserted on opposite sides of the cell, from the base to 
near the top. In virens the stigma is large and more or less 2-lobed ; 
in flavescens simple. In other respects they agree so well, that it 
seems unnecessary to figure more of flavescens, than the back of 
the base of one leaf, to shew the two glands ; and two sections of 
the germ. 
285. BAUHINIA ANGUINA. 
Scandent. Stem compressed, flexuose ; flexures approximate, 
regularly and alternately concave and convex on the two flat sides. 
Leaves subcordate, smooth, entire, or 2-lobed ; lobes subtriangular, 
and acuminate. 
Panicles terminal ; flowers triandrous. 
oval, smooth, 1-2-seeded. 
Legumes 
Naga-mu-valli. Rheed. mal. 8. p.57.¢.30.and $1. 
Folium linguze Rumph. amb. 5. p.1.¢. 1. cannot be this, and to it I 
leave the old Linnzan specific name scandens, or some 
better, because there are many scandent species already 
known. 
