82 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Holigarna, 
2. H. racemosa. R. 
Leaves alternate, linear-oblong. Flowers racemed. 
Am-jour the vernacular name in Silhet where it is 
indigenous on the hills of that province, and grows to 
be a large tree. It flowers in March, and the fruit ri- 
pens in May, June and July. Branches and branchlets 
very numerous, the bark of the former ash-coloured and 
rather rough ; of the latter, smooth, and void of pubes- 
cence: Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar and linear, 
oblong, entire, obtusely acuminate, of a hard texture, 
glossy on the upper surface or rather glaucous underneath; 
from four to eight inches long, from one to three broad. 
Petioles less than an inch in length, smooth, channel- 
led. aay 
Mate flowers I have found on a separate tree by them- 
selves collected on little lateral, and terminal villous 
racemes, small, much crowded, olive-coloured, Calyx five- 
toothed. Petals five, ovate. Filaments five, alternate with 
the petals, and with them inserted on the receptacle. An- 
thers ovate. Germ none. HERMAPHRODITE racemes as in 
_ the male but less crowded with flowers. Calyx superior, 
- five-parted, permanent. Corol as in the male. Filament. 
short. Anthers of two distinct lobes, Germ inferior, oval, 
one-celled, containing a single ovula, attached to one 
side of the cell a little above the middle. Style single, 
very short. Stigma capitate. Berry, the size of a large 
olive, obliquely, and transversely oval, smooth, when 
ripe red, pulp in considerable quantity, the fibrous pores 
_ contain a pale coloured acrid, thick juice as in Semecar- 
pus, one-celled, one-seeded. Seedsitransversely oval. 
Perisperm none. Embryo transverse. . Cotyledons can- 
form to the seed, equal. Pluwmula two-toothed, fringed. 
Radicle short, truncate lateral, directly within the umbi- 
licus. : | ene? 
