Gyrocarpus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 465 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, spreading, lanceolate, entire; wav- 
ed, smooth, shinning; about two inches long, and three-fourths of an. 
inch broad.—Stipules none.— Racemes thyrsiform, terminal, com-. 
pound, small, erect.—F/owers small, reddish.— Calyx superior. Tube 
short, a little gibbous. Border four-cleft ; divisions ovate, expand. 
ing, coloured.—Corol no other than the above, except the nectary be 
such.—Nectary four-leaved; obcordate, notched, inserted into the 
mouth of the calyx.— Filaments four, short, hairy, inserted into the. 
calyx, alternate with the leaflets of the nectary.—Germ globular. 
_ Style length of the tube. Stigma four-lobed.— Berry globular, size 
of a large pea, smooth, juicy, black, when ripe one-seeded. | 
"Obs. Birds greedily eat the berries, by which means it is propa- 
gated extensively. I do not know that the wood of this small tree 
is ever used as a perfume, 
GYROCARPUS. Jacq. Gert. 
~ Calyx superior, four-leaved, unequal. — Coro] none. Nectary of 
four clavate glands, alternate with the stamina.’ Berry dry, one-seed- 
ed, ending in two long wings. Embryo erect, spirally rolled up; no 
=" 
Ja G. Jacquini, Roxb. Corom. Pl. i. N. 1. 
—Polygamous.  Panicles dichotomous. i 
Gyrocarpus asiaticus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. W illd. iv. p. 982. 
.. Teling. Tanukoo. 
< Grows to be a very large tree, is chiefly a native of the mountain- 
ous parts of the coast of Coromandel. Leaves deciduous about the 
end of the wet season. Flowers during the cold season when the 
trees are naked ; the leaves come out soon after. ; 
Trunk generally erect. Bark smooth, greenish, ash-coloured.- — 
Branches thin, irregularly spreading in every direction. — Leaves ap- 
proximated, about the extremities of the branchlets petioled, broad- 
cordate, three-nerved, often slightly lobed, above smooth, below 
downy, with two pits on the upper. side of the "m Mogth aud 
