222 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Xanthophyllum. 
low and pink, generally solitary, pretty long-pedicelled. 
Bractes tern, at the base of each solitary pedicel, small, 
ensiform, villous, caducous. Calyx five-leaved, rather un- 
equal, the lower two, and the superior one being smaller. 
Petals five, the superior and lateral four nearly equal, 
sub-spatulate, falcate ; the upper two from what may 
be called the vexillum; the fifth or lower, (carina,) boat- 
shaped, unguiculate, and pink-coloured. Filaments 
eight, incurved, nearly equal, shorter than the corol, and 
hairy; four of them inserted on the claws of the upper 
four petals, two on the claw of the lower, viz. the cari- 
na, and the remaining two into the receptacle, be- 
tween the two petals which form the vexillum and 
the two wings. Anthers oval, Germ superior, short- 
pedicelled, the insertion of which is embraced bya 
seven-angled, nectarial cup, round, ribbed, a little hairy, 
one-celled, containing four ovula, attached two and 
two to two opposite sub-parietal receptacles, near the 
base of the cell. Style the length of the stamina, toward 
the apex incurved. Stigma slightly two-lobed. Berry 
globular, short-pedicelled, of a firm fleshy texture, when , 
ripe, olive-coloured, and about the size of a pigeon’s egg; 
one-celled. Seed solitary, nearly round; attachment 
lateral. Integument single, rather thick ana brownish. — 
Perisperm none. Embryo. transverse, green, Cotyle- 
dons two, conform to the seed, equal. Radiele lateral, 
truncate, lodged immediately within the umbilicus of 
the seed, and pointing toit. 2 
2. X. flavescens. R. 
Panicles axillary and terminal, _ SGerms from eight to 
ten-seeded. Two glands on the back of the leaves 1 non. 
the base. 
Beng. Ajensak, | 
A large tree, a native of the hilly parts of the province 
wf Chittagong, where it blossoms in May, and is so mr 
