150 ANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 
izicgeee a FRAXINUS. : 
po cosa Celje none, or four parted: -Cor ol none, or ive: 
petal. Samara one-seeded, with lanceolate wings. | "i ji 
iis F MEA R. nd 
ibash with erect. branches. Leaflets from three to seven, 
icine serrate. Panicles axillary, and terminal. Flowers without - 
petals.» - i 
A native of China, from thence introduced into the’ Botanie Gar 
den by the late Col. Robert Kyd, prior to 1793 ; where they blos - 
som in April, but have not produced seed, or even full grown vs 
vessels. ; 
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Our small trees have little or no runk ; but several, erect, straight — 
branches and - branchlets; giving an entire height of from ten to - 
twelve 4 feet.— Leaves opposite, pinnate, and ternate. Leaflets from — 
three to seven, opposite, lauceolar, serrate, smooth. - The! pars 
short-petioled, much smaller and. shorter in proportion to-theit - 
breadth than the terminal one, which is protruded on a longer. wings | 
ed petiolet -—Petioles channelled, sometimes with a marginal wing: - 
—Panicles axillary, and terminal, small, drooping, and composed of — 
most slender, simple, and compound, sub-verticelled ramifications: 
—Calyz, in all, four-toothed.—Corol none.— Fi laments in the com: 
pletely hermaphrodite flower much longer than. the calyx. © In the 
female wanting, or abortive, and hid within the calyx. Male flowers 
not f found —Germ ovate. Style long, and curved, - Stigma emar — 
ginate. | wedi toy coll 
gS F. flüribumda. Wall. 
“Leaflets oblong, tapering, acuminate, acutely and unequally s serras 
ted; male flowers with a corolla. 
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"A native of Nepala, from whence I received specimens sith "dn 
flowers and others with seeds, in April, 1818, under the name, 
Kangu and Tahasee, 
Grows to be a large tree with smooth, ARETE “cowed 
