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434 ~ CfÉTRANDRIA MONOGYNTAY | Cornus. 
3. C. capitata, Wall. | 
- Arborescent. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled, sca- 
brous with adpressed hair. Flowers sessile, densely aggregate, form- 
ing around head supported by a very large, four-leaved, scabrous 
involucre. à 
Specimens communicated By the Hon. E. Gardner from Gossain- 
"Than in Nepala, where the tree is called Chungwa; by Sir Robert 
Colquhoun from Sirinagur, where it is called Bhumowra; and by 
Dr. G. Go:an who gathered them between the Sutlej and Jumna. 
It grows to be a small tree, which according to Sir R. Colquhoun's 
observation has much of the habit of the Custard-apple.— Branches 
woody, spreading, opposite, like ail the other parts covered with | 
short stiff adpressed hairs ; the younger ones slightly compressed.— 
Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ta pering at both ends, entire, about two 
inches long, scabrous, covered on both sides with reflexed. hairs, 
which on being rubbed off leave an impression on the surface ; glau- 
cous, very pale beneath with elevated, sometimes pink-coloured, sub- 
longitudinal arched nerves, having each a minute gland in their axils. 
— Petioles very short, furrowed. Head terminal, solitary, round, 
as large as a moderate-sized cherry, thickly covered with flowers, 
supported by a sulcated, club-shaped peduncle, which widens at the 
upper end into a convex ligneous receptacle for the insertion of the 
flowers.— Incolucre consisting of four spreading, somewhat unequal, 
carlaceous, yellow, obovate-cuneate, sometimes broad-ovate, veined, 
scabrous leaves, an inch long, rounded at their ends, with a short- 
slightly: grooved point.— Calyx cylindric, pubescent, with four oblong, 
erect, obtuse segments.— Curo/ twice as long as the calyx, consisting 
of four spreading cuneate leaflets ; their upper surface slightly keel- 
ed.— Stamens equalling the petals, subulate, recurved. Anthers 
ovate. © Ovarium immersed in the receptacle, oblong, two-celled, 
with a pendulous ovulum in each cell. Sty/e thick, clavate, striated, 
shorter than the stamens, surrounded at its base by a met cylindric. 
fleshy, crenulate nectary. Stigma tr uncate. 
Obs. This beautiful tree is very, distinct from all the otber spe 
