Schleichera. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 275 
a fleshy, crenulated ring round the germ, in which the 
stamens are inserted. Filaments from six to eight, half 
the length of the petals.  Anthers erect, oblong. Germ 
two-lobed. Sty/e rather shorter than the stamens. Stigma 
two-parted. In some flowers, (and they are, I suspect, 
always barren,) the germ is small, and the style only 
a conical point between its lobes. Berries one or two- 
celled, the size of a field bean, and juiceless. Seed soli- 
tary,. 
. It was formerly observed, that I thought it necessary 
to keep the first described two species of Scytalia dis- 
tinct from the genus Sapindus, on account of the regular 
corol, or its entire absence; the same reason prevails 
here. To the former, Scytalia, I assign a regular corol 
with the stamens equally disposed on all sides ; where- 
as to the latter I give an irregular corol, with ascending 
filaments, 
SCHLEICHERA. Willd. 
_Polygamous. Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled, 
ornone. Germ superior, three-celled, cells -one-seeded ; 
attachment inferior. Capsule berried, entire, or three- 
valved. Seeds from one to three, arilled. som ae naked, 
without perisperm, curved, erect. 
: S. pentapetala, R. a. 
_ Leaflets from three tofour pair, subalternate, lanceolate. 
Flowers five-petalled. Capsule one-seeded. 
A pretty large tree, a native of the forests of Silhet, 
where it blossoms in March and April, and the fruit ri- 
Pens during the rains. The male tree is there called Koi- 
Poora and the hermaphrodite, or fertile tree Poora -Koi. 
| This sort is not eaten, the aril, the only edible part, being 
Very thin, and insipid. 
szotng shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, Bette pin- 
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