26 * ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Laurus, 
inches in circumference. The bark thereof scabrous, 
and considerably cracked in various directions, that 
of the younger parts smooth. The head remarkably ra- i 
mous, large, and dense, for the last three or four years S 
they have flowered freely during the monthsof January and 
February ; and ripened abundance of berries. It isfrom 
these the following description wastaken. The drawing 
and description, No. 1058,* was made from young trees, 
which were reared by me at Samulkota, from the seeds of 
the trees growing in Tinnevellee, near Palamkotta, which 
were procured from Ceylon in 1781 or 1782, and which 
differ from this in the leaves being much narrower at the 
base, in short, broad-lanceolar, and the three nectarial 
glands clavate. - The sort introduced into Bengal by Mr. 
Hastings, between thirty and forty years ago is of this 
narrow leaved inferior kind. 7 
Descriptions of Kasse Koronde. 
‘Leaves opposite, rarely sub-opposite, short-petioled, 
ovate-oblong, entire, rather obtuse ; texture hard, surfa 
ces polished, the three nerves often uniting a little above 
the base, and the lateral two vanishing beyond the middle 
of the leaves ; from four to six inches long, and from ope 
and a half to three broad. Petioles about half an inch 
Jong, smooth, and channelled. Paniclesterminal ; the large 
ramifications opposite, expanding,the extreme ones three- e 
flowered, all more or less four-sided, and smooth. Flow- S 
ers numerous, small, greenish-white, smell rather offensive: 
Bractes minute, caducous. Calyx six-cleft ; base entire, 
embracing the germ ; border divided into six, oblons> os 
slightly villous segments, the three exterior rather proad- ; 
er, all are permanent and from a cupula, or small cup #! in 2 
which the berry sits, as in the common oak. Corol no ie 
ther than the last described body. Filaments nine, the sis . 
exterior inserted on the base of the segments of the cal 
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