214 HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA> — Andersonia, 
These synonyms refer chiefly to the shies hermaphro- 
dite, or fertile tree. 
A small tree, a native of Bengal. Flowering time the 
rainy season. 
Trunk pretty straight, caieee seith smooth, ashiole 
loured bark. Branches not very numerous, but spreading 
and drooping much; and. so densely decorated with 
leaves, as to yield.themost complete shade. Leaves al- 
ternate, unequally pinnate, from. one, to two feet long. 
Leaflets from four, to,eight pair, opposite, short-petioled, _ 
oblong, and linear-oblong, somewhat falcate, entire, ob- 
tusely cuspidate, smooth on both sides; the most exte-_ 
rior are about;six inches long, while the lower pair is 
scarcely half the length, Petioles nearly round, and very 
slightly villous. Stipules none. “4 
MAte tree. Panicles axillary, or rather a little above, 
shorter than the leaves, composed of numerous, simple, 
diverging, somewhat drooping ramifications. Flowers nu- 
merous, subsessile, small, white, inodorous. Bractes mi- 
nute, scales under the divisions of the panicle, and ca- 
lyx. Calyx one-leaved, thick, firm and fleshy. Border di- 
videdinto five nearly equal, imbricate, reniform segments. 
Petals three, oval, concave. Nectary globular, pure 
white, fleshy, smooth, with a roundish triangular open- 
ing on the apex, Filaments none. Anthers six, theit 
back attached to the inside of the nectary. Germ abor- 
tive. Ee 
HERMAPHRODITE tree. Spikes axillary,solitary, pedua- 
cled, erect, generally simple, rather more than half the 
length of the leaves. Flowers sessile, numerous, small, 
cream-coloured. Bractes, a very minute one below each 
flower. Calyx five-leaved. Leaflets orbicular, unequal, 
leathery, concave, smooth on both sides. Petals three, 
roundish, concave, much longer than the calyx. Nee- 
tary globular, fleshy, perforated at the apex, occupying 
