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242 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Guarea, 
to Sandoricum Indicum. have not observed that any part 
of it possesses any peculiar odour, which, with the double — 
nectary is a sufficient reason to induce me to think itis — 
not the American species, Guarea trichilioides. 
2. G. paniculata. R. Bh 
Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets from six to 
twelve pair, alternate and opposite, ovate-lanceolate. 
Panicles axillary. ” E is 
Kulikoura is the vernacular name in Silhet, whereit 
grows to be a pretty large tree. Flowering time May and : | 
June ; the seed ripens the following April. ce 
Young shoots slightly villous. Leaves alternate, abrupt _ 
ly pinnate, from eighteen to thirty inches long. Leaflets — 
from six to fourteen pair, short-petiolate, the inferior paits _ 
often alternate, those above opposite, somewhat ume 
qually ovate, lanceolate, entire, taper-pointed, nearly _ 
smooth ; from five to ten inches long, and two or four 
broad. Common petioles round and villous. Stipules none. 
Panicles axillary, solitary, nearly as long as the leaves, 
spreading. Ramifications villous. Flowers very numerous, — 
pedicelled, pretty large, of a pale yellow, expanding in the 
evening, and dropping the next morning, Bractes fili- 
form, villous. Calyx cup-shaped, obscurely four-toothed, 
alittle villous. Petals four, spatulate, obtuse, recurved. 
Nectary cylindric, the length of the corol,and hairy on poth 
sides ; the mouth eight-toothed ; segments bidentate. Fila- ue 
ments scarcely any. Anthers oblong, attached round the © . 
inside of the mouth of the nectary. Germ superior, ovate 
four-celled, with one, rarely two ovula in each, attached - 8 
to the top of the axis. Style the length of the nectaty, 
hairy. Stigma globular. Capsule globular, the size of 2 
crab apple, -three or four-lobed, with a furrow betwee? 
smooth, of a dark orange colour, from three to four-celled, 
- from three to four-valved ; valves thick, and spongy, wit 
the partitions rising down the middle. Seed solitary, 
