274 - .. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scytalia. 
and entire; about six inches long and about two broad. 
Stipules none: Panicles terminal, many crowded to- 
gether; also single from the exterior axills, erect, with 
numerous diverging ramifications. © Bractes minute, ca- 
ducous. Flowers short-pedicelled, small, pale yellow, 
with a tinge of red. : Calyx of five, unequal, roundish, con- 
cave leaflets.. Petals five, oblong, expanding, each with 
one villous, nectarial scale on the inside near the base, 
Filaments, about seven, short, erect, inserted on a short 
fleshy receptacle, which also elevates the pistil. Anthers 
_ erect, Germ superior, on a short fleshy receptacle, two- — 
rarely three-lobed ; /obes one-seeded, attached to the bot- 
tom of the cell, &c., Style very short, Stigmatwo point - 
ed. Berries generally twin, oval, the size of a small cof 
fee bean, pulpy, when ripe, orange-coloured, supported 
on a short common receptacle. Embryo erect, without 
perisperm. hee 
9. S. Danura. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves simple, broad-lanceolate, with a cor- 
date base. Panicles terminal, petals five, with two wool- 
ly scales at their base. Germ two-lobed. Style scarcely 
any. 
Beng. Danoora. 
This tree is a native of the Delta of the Ganges and of 
the parts to the east of it. Flowering time the beginning © 
of the hot season. ee 
Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, sim" 
ple, subsessile, broad-lanceolate, smooth, entire; about @ 
footlong. Panicies terminal, composed of rather remote, 
diverging, compound, ramifications. Flowers numerous, 
solitary, pedicelled, of a pale pink colour.  Bractes mi-’ 
nute, one-flowered. Calyx of five, unequal, roundish, 
concave leaflets. Corol of five equal, equally disposed, 
oval, emarginate, short, clavate petals. Nectary, a double ae 
woolly scale at the base of each a on the inside, also i 
