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Nectandra. §DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 425 
2. H. pinnata. R. 
Leaves alternately pinnate, 
A tree a native of Travancore ; the leaflets are about © 
five in number, alternate, obliquely ovate-oblong, entire, 
firm and lucid. 
NECTANDRA. Juss. gen. 
Calyx inferior, tubular, from four to five cleft. Corol 
none. Nectarial scales from eight to ten from the mouth 
of the tube of the calyx, alternate with the stamina. 
Germ one-celled, one-seeded. Berry dry, one-celled. 
Seed solitary. Embryo inverse without perisperm. 
N. decandra. R. 
Leaves opposite, lanceolate, entire. Nectarial squamz 
linear-clavate. ; 
Herenda is the vernacular name inSilhet, where it has 
been found on only one hill, in the centre of an extensive 
jungle growing on the ruins of an old Hindoo place of 
religious worship, where the largest were elegantly bushy 
shrubs; flowering time October, the seed ripens in Ja- 
nuary, February and March. 
Bark of the woody parts with small lighter coloured 
specks thickly scattered. Branchlets dichotomous, and 
much crowded. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, 
smooth, entire, finely veined ; from two to three inches. 
long, and Jess than one in brokiith: Floral leaves sessile 
and coloured, in other respects like the common green 
leaves. Peduncles terminal, pretty long, smooth and 
Slender, embraced generally above their base, by a pair 
of floral leaves, each bearing an erect umbellet of about 
six, pretty large, greenish white, fragrant flowers. Pedi- 
cells‘about as long as the flowers, and jointed a little be- 
low the middle ; no bract@. Calyx inferior, tubular, ‘with- : 
ering ; tube rather gibbous, hairy within ; border five- 
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