Bosea. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 87 
to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where the tree grows 
slowly ; the heat of Bengal being, I presume, too great for 
this species. 
OPILIA. R. 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Nectarial 
scales alternate with the filaments. Style none. Berry 
superior, one-seeded. 
O. amentacea. Corom. pl. 2. N. 158. 
Teling. Balee-koma. 
A small tree, a native of the mountainous parts of the 
Circars. : 
Leaves .alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, ova or 
oblong, entire, smooth, shining, sometimes very slightly 
serrulate, about three inches long, and one and a half 
broad. Stipules none, Aments axillary, small, erect, 
before the flowers open, every where closely imbricated 
with small, peltate, kidney-shaped, pointed, ciliate, cadu- 
cous three-flowered scales, Flowers small, greenish- 
white, tern. Calyx, perianth proper, very small, five- 
toothed. Petals five, spreading, oblong. Nectary, five 
short, thick, fleshy, clubbed bodies alternate with the 
shattie Filaments five, spreading, shorter than the petals. 
Anthers ovate. Germsuperior, oblong. Style none. Stigma 
single. Berry size of a cherry, globular, juicy, one-seeded. 
idles _BOSEA. 
~ Calyx five-leaved. “ Corolnone. Berry superior, ‘one- 
seeded, 
1. B. trinervia. R. 
Arboreous, Leaves oval, pointed, entire, three-nerved. | 
Male flowers under the hermaphrodite ones. 
_A large tree; a native of the Circar mountains, Bark 
, sii smooth, and brown, Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
