390 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Heynea, 
Germ two-celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment interior. 
Capsule superior, one-celled, two-valved, one-seeded, 
Seed arilled. Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 
1. H. trijuga. R. 
Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets three pair. Pant- 
cles axillary, long-peduncled. 
Kapyakooshee. 
A native of Nepal; from thence, in 1802, Dr. Bucha- 
nan sent seeds of this tree, to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, under the vernacular name yakooshee, where in se- 
ven years, the young trees were about fifteen, and twenty 
feet high, with much the habit of the Walnut tree. Flow- 
ering time in the Botanic garden, March; the seed ripens 
in October. 
‘Trunk straight, in our young trees about as thick as @ 
man’s thigh, Bark dark ash-coloured, and pretty smooth. 
Branches few ; young shoots marked with scabrous spots 
Leaves unequally pinnate, alternate, from one to two feet 
long. Leaflets opposite, short-petioletted, two or three 
pair, ovate-oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth, from four 
to eight inches long, and from two to four broad. ‘Peti- 
oles round, smooth, swelled at the insertion of the leaflets. 
Petioles channelled, less than an inch long. Stipules 
none. Panicles axillary, solitary, long peduncled, smooth, . 
erect. Flowers numerous, small, white. Bractes minute, — 
caducous. Calyx one-leafed, five-toothed, permanent. 
Petals five, cuneate-lanceolate, spreading. Nectarium 
subcylindric, shorter than the petals, half ten-cleft, divi- 
sion alternately a little shorter, bifid. Filaments scarcely 
any. Anthers ten, ovate, three-lobed, crowned with an 
obtuse point, ‘attached to the inside of the divisions 
of the nectary. Germ superior, immersed in 4 large 
fleshy ring, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attack 
to the middle of the partition. Style short. “Stigma 
large, nearly round, with a Bee ote apex which is ip 
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