Pentaptera.. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 441 
A timber tree, a native of various.parts of India. It 
flowers in May and the seed ripens in the cool season. 
7. P. bialata. R. 
Arboreous. Branches horizontal. Leaves alternate, 
cuneate-oblong, waved, pointed, polished. Spikes axil- 
lary, drooping, Drupe two-winged. 
Of this very distinct species, there is a large one in the 
Botanic garden which blossoms about the beginning of 
the rains. It is a native of the mountainous parts of In- 
dia, ; 
Trunk perfectly straight, even up through the horizon- 
tal subverticelled branches to the very top; itis from five 
to six feet in circumference four feet above ground. Bark 
smooth, of a brownish ash colour ; the height of the whole 
tree about fifty feet. _ Leaves alternate, about the ends of 
the branchlets, long-petioled, oblong-cuneate, entire, acute, 
with waved margins, smooth, polished, of a deep green on 
both sides, from four to seven inches long, and from two to 
three broad. Petioles about half the length of the leaves, 
Very smooth, the lower half being round, and the upper half 
flattened on the upper side. Spikes axillary, solitary, 
smooth, drooping, about as long as both leaf and petiole, 
ers numerous, smali, of a greenish yellow, herma- 
Phrodite in the lower half of the spike, and male in the 
test. Bractes minute, one-flowered, caducous, Calyx cam- 
panulate, five-parted, having the bottom filled with brown 
hairs. Filaments ten, alternately a little shorter, the short 
Ones do not expand so much as the longer five. Anthers _ 
two-lobed. Germ beneath, ovate, villous. Style nearly as 
long as the stamina. Stigmaacute. Drupe oblong, vil- 
lous, tapering equally towards each end, and enlarged 
With two broad, membranaceous, waved, villous wings. 
Seed lanceolate. Embryo with its two large thin cotyle- 
dons, rolled spirally up round each other and the Be 
or radicle, ae tea 
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