250 - OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Amyris, ~ 
nearly round, size of a large pea, pale greenish somewhat 
~ pellucid white. i 
Note. This description is taken from a small plant of 
two years’ growth when it first blossomed, but I find they 
grow to be large, elegant, very fragrant shrubs. 
8. A. suffruticosa. R. 
Suffruticose ; leaflets about eleven or thirteen, opposite, 
or alternate, short-petioled, ovate. Panicles axillary. 
Berry linear, oblong. 
A native of Chittagong, and from thence sent by Dr. 
Buchanan to the Botanic garden at Calcutta,. where it 
blossoms in the months of February and March, Seed 
ripe in April and May. 
Stem simple, about two feet high. Bark of the lower 
woody part ash-coloured, of the yaung shoots green 
and villous. Leaves alternate, pinnate, expanding from 
six to sixteeninches in length. Leaflets generally from 
eleven to fifteen, opposite, and alternate, short-petiolleted, 
the lower pairs small, cordate-ovate, the superior oblong; 
all are entire, and downy on both sides. Petioles, and — 
petivlets round and downy. Panicles axillary, diverging, 
‘scarcely half the length of the leaves, villous. Flowers 
numerous, small, greenish white. yer 
Calyx small, with four acute divisions. Petals fout, 
expanding, concave. Nectary a small fleshy ring round 
the base of the germ. Filaments alternately a little short 
er, enlarged at the base. Anthers large, two-lobed. 
Germ globular. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma 
small, four-lobed. Berries lanceolate, dreoping, orange 
coloured, succulent, marked with numerous, large, pellu- 
cid glands, nearly an inch long, and about a quarter of an 
inch in diameter. Seed solitary, shaped like the berry, 
green. : zo 
9. A. sumatrana. R. , ; 
- Arboreous, tender parts villous. Vibe ACE sight to i 
