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_ 2.8. Chickrassa. R., 
_ Leaflets from six to eight-pair, sub-alternate, oblique- 
ly oblong, pointed. Pauicles terminal, diffuse. Capsules 
three-celled. 
Beng. Chikrassee. 
A native of the mountainous parts near Chittagong, &c. 
to the eastward of Bengal. Flowering time the hot sea- 
son, viz. April,and May. Itisa timber tree of great size, 
with a thick, strai-ht trunk, and dark rust-coloured bark, 
which is pretty deeply cracked, but inwardly very firm 
and of a pretty deep reddish brown colour, whichis pow- 
erfully astringent, but without bitterness. 
Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate, in luxuriant plants 
often bipinnate, from six to eighteen inches long. Leaf- 
lets subopposite, from two to ten pair, subsessile, ob- 
liquely-ovate ; with a pretty long tapering point, entire, 
smooth on both sides, increasing in size towards the apex 
of the leaf. -Petioles round, with here and there a small 
scabrous speck. Stipules none.. Panicles terminal, erect, 
pretty large. Flowers numerous, pretty large. Bractes 
small. Calyx inferior, small, five-parted, the divisions ex- 
panding, linear, wedge-formed, slightly emarginate. Nec- 
tary nine-leaved, subcylindric, rather shorter than the pe- 
tals, striated ; mouth most slightly ten-toothed, Filaments 
Minute, inserted into the top of the toothlets of the necta- 
Ty, Anthers cordate. Germ oblong, striated, a little hairy. 
Style just long enough to raise the large peltate. Stigma 
€ven with the mouth of the nectary. Capsule oval, some- 
What pointed, scabrous, the size of a small pullet’s egg, 
three-celled, three-valved, with double integuments, anda 
three-winged receptacle, | Sceds numerous, winged and 
imbricated in a double series across the cells. 
The wood of this tree is greatly admired for its beauty, 
being of alight colour, and most elegantly veined ; at’ 
the Same time very close in the grain- Itisemployed to” 
make furniture of various kinds, Tt coal 
