436 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.- Terminalia. 
Trunk straight, and of very great size. Branches 
spreading, but not much crowded. Bark rather scabrous 
that of the young shoots strongly marked with light co- 
loured, elevated specks ; wood much like mahogany, 
but finer grained ; a beautiful specimen sent to me by 
Mr. Smith of Silhet, was accompanied with the follow- 
ing words :— 
_ “ This piece of wood is from a tree which I heath it 
“ was eighty feet long, one straight body or trunk, and was 
“nine feet in circumference, This wood is very hard,no 
* insect will touch it.” ia 
Leaves sub-opposite, short-petioled, from broad-lance- 
olar to oblong, tapering less at the base than at the apex, 
entire, rather obtusely acuminate, smooth and glossy 02 
both sides, from four to six inches long, and from two to 
three broad ; when the plants are young the leaves are vil- 
lous. Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, com- 
posed of many, simple, erect, slightly villous spikes. Flow- 
ers numerous, small, of a dull yellow, all hermaphrodite. 
Bractes solitary, one-flowered, subulate, smooth. » Caly* 
cup-shaped, five-toothed, hairy on the inside, five, very 
hairy glands having at the bottom round the base of the 
style. Filaments ten, alternately shorter, butall much 
longer than the calyx, and inserted into its inside. 
Anthers oval. Germ inferior, one-celled containing t° 
ovula attached to the top of the cell. Style shorter thaa 
the stamina, smooth. “Stigma acute. . Drupe oblong-la0- 
ceolar, about two inches long, and two in circumference 
where thickest, while fresh obscurely five-cornered: ‘but 
more Clearly so when dry, of a dull orange, yellow, and 
smooth, Nut oblong, deeply five-grooved, with the five 
angles sometimes sharp, sometimes rounded, 0 
_ Seed solitary, linear-lanceolar.. Integument single, thi, 
of alight brown. Perisperm none. -Embryo inverse. - nell 
> -yledons to thin, and broad, ipaalet wireline asin a 
superior. wis a 4 
