438 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIAs Fagara, 
peduneled, trichotomous, the whole forming one large, very ramous 
globular panicle, which is shorter than the leaves.— Calyx four-tooth- 
ed.—Peials four, elliptic, spreading.— Stamina four, much longer 
than the petals.— Germ ovate. Style short.—Capsule the size of a 
pea, drupaceous, one-celled, two- valved; the exterior tunicis mark- 
ed with cells filled with a fragrant balsam.— Seed solitary, attached to 
the apex of the suture of the valves, round, smooth, polished, shin- 
ing black. Integuments three; the exterior one thin and brittle, be- 
tween it and the second is spread a quantity. of dark orange-coloured 
pulpy matter, the second thick and hard, a perfect nut, and oí a dull 
black-colour, the third or innermost membranaceous.— Ferisperm 
in small quantity.— Embryo inverse. Cotyledons obovate. Radicle 
ovate, pointing to the umbilicus. ; 
3.F. Rhetsa, R. AST 
Arboreous, round. Leaflets from eight to sixteen pair, i deaetolate, 
falcate, smooth, entire. Panicle terminal. 
Telinz. Rhetsa-maun. 
A Rhetsa means a committee, or select number of men assembled 
to settle disputes, &c. and maun, means trees of the largest size. 
Under the shade of this tree the Hill people assemble to examine, 
agitate, and determine their matters of public concern, deliver. dis- 
courses, Kc. 
It is a very large tree, a'native of the mountainous parts of the. 
Coast. Leaves deciduous during the cold season, they come out: 
; again, with the flowers about the besinning of the hot season. — - 
Trunk straight. Bark corky, deeply cracked, light grey. Branch- 
gs numerous, spreading toa great extent. Trickles very numerous, 
scattered over every part of the tree, small, very sharp, incurved ; on 
the old wood they acquire a conical solid base. Leaves about the 
extremities of the branchlets, abruptly pinnate, from twelve to twen- 
ty inches long. Leaflets opposite, from eight to sixteen pairs, short- 
petioled, oblong or lanceolate, waved, attenüated to a narrow point, 
entire, smooth, about five or six inches long, and two broad, all near- 
