500 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



great difficulty in referring this genus to any of the natural or- 

 ders of Jussieu ; sometimes thinking that it had a kind of resem- 

 blance to the Berber ides : at others, that it came nearer the third 

 division of the Tiliacece : and at others, to the third division of 

 the Jura tit ice ; but I am dissatisfied with all these arrangements. 

 In the opinion of the authors of the EncyclopSdie, this plant and 

 the Pangi of Rumphius {Herb. Amb. ii. 182.) have an affinity, 

 and in the general structure and the qualities of their fruits they 

 have a general resemblance ; but, if I understand the descrip- 

 sion of Rumphius, the seed of the Pangi has no perispermum. 

 The Marotti has perhaps a still greater affinity with the Hydno- 

 carpus, belonging, like it, to the Polygamia dioecia of Linnaeus ; 

 but in place of having hermaphrodite and female trees, it has 

 hermaphrodite and male. On account of the resemblance of 

 Marotti to Marattia, I shall prefer the Bengalese name for the 

 genus, and describe first the species found on the hills of Tri- 



pura. 



Chilmoria*. 



Herm. Calyx pentaphyllus. Petala quinque ; squama totidem 

 petalis opposite. Stamina 6 — 15. Germen superum. Stig- 

 ma peltatum, sessile. Bacca lignosa, uniloculars, pulpo 

 farcta. Semina nidulantia, plura. 



Masculini in diverse arbore flores. Calyx, petala, et stamina 

 ut in hermaphrodito. Germen nullum. 



Species 1. 

 Chilmoria dodecandra, staminibus 10 — 15 indefinitis. 

 Chilmori Bengalensium in Tripura. 

 Habitat in montibus Indise ultragangeticae. 

 Specimina misi ad D. J. Banks anno 1798. 



Arbor elata ramis cinereis, laevibus. Folia alterna, lato-lanceo- 



* Gvnocardta. Roxb, Corom. iii. p. 95. 



lata, 



