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QUERCUS CASTANICARPA. 
Leaves oblong, entire, smooth. Nuts ovate, with a point, a 
little hairy, completely hid in the evalvular capsular cup, which 
is completely armed with numerous strong, ramous, sharp spines. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Lumba-kanta-hurrinea-Batana, the vernacular name in Chitta- 
gong ; where it grows upon the hills over that district to be a 
very large, and elegant tree, with far extended shady branches. 
Flowers in July and August ; and the acorns ripen in the cool 
season. The wood not esteemed, and used for fuel chiefly. 
MODECCA. 
MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx tubular, coloured, 5-parted. Petals five, inserted into the 
calyx. Nectary various. Germ pedicelled, one-celled: ovules 
numerous, insertion parietal. Capsule, one-celled, 3-valved. 
Seeds many. L£mbryo inferior-centrifugal, and furnished 
with albumen. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
I have adopted Van Rheede’s name for a generic one to this 
family, which, though nearly allied to Passiflora, seem to me to 
be sufficiently distinct on account of its capsular seed vessel, and 
monoecious habit. 
297. MODECCA TRILOBATA. 
Leaves $-lobed, a gland under each sinus, and two at the base. 
Capsule oblong. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Akanda-Phul, the vernacular name in Chittagong ; where the 
plant is found in the moist forests, growing to an extent of many 
fathoms ; ramous, and climbing up and over trees of a large size. 
In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, it grows slow, though healthy; 
flowers during the rains, and the fruit ripens in October. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Bark on the old ligneous parts ash-coloured ; on the young shoots 
smooth, polished, green. 
Leaves remote, alternate, petioled, smooth on both sides, 3-lobed ; 
fobes entire, tapering and acute. Glands: a large yellow one 
under each sinus, and two at the base. 
Petioles nearly as long as the leaves, columnar, smooth; base 
permanent, though not enlarged, as in M. tuberosa, and be- 
comes a recurved blunt, short, thorn. 
Tendrils axillary, floriferous, when not floriferous simple. 
MODECCA TRILOBATA.  ~—94 
Flowers numerous, male and female annexed on the same tendril, 
middling sized, forming a little dichotomous corymb, toward 
the apex of the tendrils. 
Calyx tubular, somewhat gibbous toward the base; colour pale 
yellow; mouth 5-parted. 
Petals five, linear-lanceolate, ciliate, inserted on the tube of the 
calyx near the base. Nectarial scales in the male none; in 
the female ten ; five are alternate with the petals entire and 
truncated, and five under the petals, smaller and ciliate. 
Filaments in the male five, united into a tube. 
erect. 
Anthers linear, 
Germ in the male a small 3-cleft gland: in the female short-pedi- 
celled, oblong, one-celled; ovules many, attached to three 
Stigma 3-lobed. 
Capsule pedicelled, berried, oblong, size of a pullet’s egg, fleshy, 
smooth, polished, scarlet colour, 3-valved, opening from the 
apex. 
Seeds many attached, by very thick, soft, fleshy cords to athickened 
ridge down the middle of each valve; obcordate, invested in 
a complete, soft, lucid, aril. 
vertical, parietal receptacles. Style none. 
Integuments two, exterior nuci- 
form, dark coloured, scrobiculate ; znterior membranaceous. 
Albumen conform to the seed, somewhat glaucous. 
Embryo nearly as large as the perisperm, with round, 3-nerved 
cotyledons and short radicle lodged at the umbilicus of the 
seed. 
298. GARCINIA CAMBOGIA. 
Willd. 2. p. 848. 
Leaves broad-lanceolar. Hermaphrodite flowers terminal, sub- 
sessile, solitary. Stigma 8-10-lobed, torulose, 8-10-seeded. 
Mangostana Cambogia. Gert. sem. 2. 106. ¢. 105. 
Coddam-pulli. Rheed. mal. 1. p. 41.¢. 24. is probably this very 
tree, for though Van Rheede says the fruit is on a peduncle 
an inch long, yet his figure places the leaves close to the 
terminal fruit, so that it is evident the extremity of the 
branchlet must have been considered the peduncle. In 
my G. zeylanica the flowers are axillary. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This tree grows to be of considerable size in the forests of 
Travancore, where it is known to the natives by the name Ghor- 
hapuli ; consequently we may conclude it to be Carcapuli of Bauhin, 
Acosta, kc. Flowering time February and March; fruit ripe in 
June and July. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, polished on both 
sides ; length 3-6-inches, and from one to two broad. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, subsessile, pretty large, yellow. 
Calyx 4-leaved ; leaflets in two opposite pairs, the exterior pair 
rather smaller ; all are nearly round, of a firm fleshy texture, 
smooth on both sides and permanent. 
Petals four, nearly round, twice the length of the calyx. 
Filaments from fifteen to twenty, shorter than the germ, broad 
towards the base, and there slightly united. Anthers roundish, 
