264 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ornitrophe. 
ed; leaflets roundish, the two extericr longer. Petals four, 
wedge-shaped, the whole of the inside very woolly, equal- 
ly disposed round the stamina and pistil. | Filaments 
eight, nearly the length of the petals. Anthers oval. Germ 
two-lobed. Style single. Stigma two-parted. —— 
not seen. 
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ORNITROPHE. Juss. 
Calyx of two unequal pairs of leaflets. . Corol four- 
petalled, unilateral, Germ superior, two-lobed, two-cell- 
ed; cells one-seeded; attachment subinferior. Berries 
two (though it frequently happens that one is abortive) 
one-seeded, Embryo folded, with inferior radicle and 20 
perisperm. 
J. O. aporetica. R. ; 
Polygamous, shrubby. Leaves ternate ; leaflets ses- 
sile, broad-lanceolar, acuminate, acutely serrate. Race 
mes simple. Nectary four-leaved. wu 
Aporetica ternata. Forst. gen. N. 66. 
Beng. Ghee-Kushee, 
A shrubby species, about four or five feet in height 5 - 
native of the Silhet district where it blossomsin June» 
Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets sessile, - 
broad-lanceolar, remotely but acutely serrate, cuspidate, 
smooth on both sides, from four to six inches long, : 
and from two to three broad. Stipules none. Racemés 
axillary, solitary, simple, erect, shorter than the leayes, 
villous. Flowers numerous, small, pale yellow, collected 
in little bundles, and embraced by some small, lineal, 
villous bractes, many of them male. Calyx of two, OP” 
posite, rather unequal pairs of round concave leaflets: 
Petals four, unilateral, obovate, cuneate, emarginaley 
very woolly on the inside above the middle. Nectary 
within the base of each Petal, a small, oblong, | nooti, 
