424 _ DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ~~ Hardwickia. 
large size, and yields timber of an excellent quality for a 
' variety of uses. 
Trunk tolerably straight. Bark deeply eg Branch- 
es numerous, spreading in every direction, with bifarious, 
alternate, slender, smooth, waving, drooping branchlets. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, binate, with a minute 
bristle between them. Leaflets sessile, of a shape be- 
tween semi-cordate and reniform, entire, very smooth on 
‘both sides, while young tinged with red, slightly marked 
with three or four nerves, from one to three inches long, 
and a little more than half of that in breadth. _Petioles 
round, smooth, about one-fourth or one-third the length 
of the leaves. Stipules small, cordate, caducous. Pant- 
cles terminal, and from the exterior axils, small, delicate- 
ly slender, and smooth on every part. Flowers scatter- 
ed, slender, pedicelled, small. Bractes minute, caducous- 
Calyx none, except the corol be so called. Petals five, 
obovate, concave, spreading, somewhat hoary on the 
outside ; inside yellowish, rather longer than the stamens. 
Filaments ten, alternately shorter, inserted round the 
base of the germ, Anthers incumbent, ovate, with an a 
cute point between the lobes. Germ oblong. Style as- 
cending. Stigma large, peltate. Legume lanceolate, from 
two to three inches long, two-valved, striated length- 
ways, Opening at the apex. Seed solitary in the ape* 
of the legume, and there inserted, cuneate, furrowed 5 
the posterior edge thin and somewhat membranaceous 
no aril, 
Some beautiful thriving young trees are in the Bota- 
nic garden at Calcutta, reared from seeds sent from 
the mountains of Coromandel by Dr. Berry of Madras, 
will soon enable us to know whether this tree produ- 
ces any thing like the medicinal balsam ( Copaiva) 
obtained from a tree which seems to be yery pearly. 
ed to it. 
