418 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Casearia, 
CASEARIA. Schreb. gen. n. 756. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Nectarial filaments 
eight, or ten, distinct, and alternate, with the same number 
of stamina. Germ superior, one-celled, many-seeded, at- 
tachment parietal. Capsule berried, three-valved, one- 
celled. Seeds nidulent. Embryo in some centripetal, in 
others centrifugal, and between those directions, witha 
perisperm. 
1. C. vareca. R. | 
Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong, and lanceolate, very 
finely serrulate. Flowers axillary, crowded, octandrous. 
Stamina and nectaries on the bowl of the one-leayed ¢a- 
lyx. 
Vareca. Gert. sem. 1. p. 290. t. 60. aa 
Tetahehera the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
indigenous ; it flowersin May, and the seed ripens in Sep- 
tember and October. Young shoots straight, rather 40- 
gular, and somewhat hairy. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
short-petioled, linear-oblong, and lanceolate; very fine 
ly, and acutely serrulate, a little hairy underneath ; from 
three to six inches long, and from one to two broad. Sui- 
pules cordate, villous. Peduncles axillary, crowded, short, 
one flowered, the insertions embraced by many, s@@ 
scariose bractes. Flowers small, of a greenish grey colour. 
Calyx one-leaved,bowl-shaped,the border divided into fV° 
orbicular segments. Nectarial scales broad, short, 
hairy, inserted alternately with the filaments, into them! 
dle of the tube of the calyx. Filaments eight, short, slightly 
united to the nectarial scales. | Anthers cordate. Gem 
superior, ovate, one-celled, containing several ovula at a 
tached to three equi-distant portions of the middle of io 
the ovarium. Style short. Stigma capitate. Capsules* 
perior, oval, the size of a french bean, smooth, one-cele" 
