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tacea. Albumen nullum. | Embryo teres, spiralis cotyledo- 
nibus hinc planis inde convexis. 
In masculinis floribus cæteroquin simillimis stipites germinum 
brevissimi, cum pistilli rudimento in apicem insidente. 
In the Rungpur district I found a small tree, or bush, which 
agrees so well with the figure given by M. Lamarck of the 
Cratæva religiosa, that, although I have not seen the fruit, I am 
‘inclined to think it the same. All the flowers that I saw were 
male; the tree therefore is no doubt dicecious. Its leaflets are 
not so much acuminated as in the species last described, and are 
nearly about half as long again as they are broad. 
2. Cratæva religiosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 853; et Enc. Meth. vii. 
582. (excluso synonymo Lamarki Ill. Gen. t. 395.). 
Habitat in locis Camrupæ elevatis. 
Corymbus terminalis, erectus, angulatus, indivisus. Flores plures, 
alterni, pedicellis longis nudis, unifloris solitariis insidentes. 
Apex pedicelli dilatatus in receptaculum sublentiforme, e cujus 
margine duplice serie prodeunt perianthii foliola octo colo- 
rata, unguiculata, persistentia, venosa, hinc majora obovata, 
. inde minora dimidiato-falcata. E medio receptaculi pro- 
dit discum truncatum, lateribus staminiferum. Filamenta 
indefinita circiter sexdecim, petalis dupló longiora, foliola 
perianthii versus minora declinata. Anthere parvas. Ger- 
men nullum. Styli rudimentum e disci centro subulatum. 
Near villages in different parts of the Rungpur district I found 
what may be another species, and which certainly, on account 
of the larger size of the fruit, is different from the Crateva reli- 
giosa as delineated by M. Lamarck; and on account of the 
narrowness of the leaflets this has a great affinity to the Nürvala. 
The 
