270 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scytalia, 
ing on both sides, ofa firm texture, and almost veinless, 
from three to six inches long, and about one broad. Pa- — 
nicles terminal, large, oval, ramous, erect, or ascending, 
according tothe direction of the branch that supports them. 
Bractes minute. Flowers small, greenish white, smell ra- 
ther offensive, On some trees they are mostly hermaphro- 
dite ; while on others mostly male, but as far as I have © 
observed never completely so. ; 
HERMAPHRODITE. Calyx spreading, four, rarely five- 
lobed ; both sides downy. Corol none. Nectarya large, 
fleshy, crenulate gland, into which the stamens and pis- 
til are inserted. Filaments from six to eight, short, hairy, — 
spreading, Anthers roundish, two-lobed. Germ superi- 
or, elevated on a sbort column, two-lobed, hairy, two- 
celled, each containing a single ovula, attached to the 
inner and lower angle ofthe cell. Style erect, rather 
short, hairy. Stigma two-cleft ; divisions revolute, Ber- 
ry generally single, though sometimes double, oval, the 
size of a pigeon’s egg, covered with a thin, bright red, 
murexed bark; next under it is the pulpy aril, which is 
of a faint, transparent azure colour, and delicious suba- 
cid taste, Seed single, oblong, enveloped by the pulpy 
aril, smooth, brown and affixed by the base. Embry@ 
erect, without perisperm, &c. as described by Gaertner. _ 
MALe FLoweERs mixed with the hermaphrodite. Ca- 
lyx and nectary asin the former. Corol none, Fila- 
ments from six to eight, thrice as long as in the herma- — : 
phrodite. Germ smaller than in the former and always 
abortive, Style very short and entire. 
_ Independently of the well known fruit of this tree, , it 
is highly ornamental, being one of the most permanent 
ever greens we have in India. 
2.8. Longan. R. wee 
Leaflets four pair, lanceolate, obtuse, paver 
ed, fertile germ, often three-lobed, fruit round, beset 
cabrous. Cha a Bs Sie eke sal 
