442 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Conocarpus. 
8. P. paniculata. R. i 
Branches diverging. Leaves sub-opposite, linear-ob- 
long, with a cordate base, entire, smooth, but very hard; 
there are two sessile umbilicate glands underneath the 
base. Panicles terminal. Nuts unequally three-winged. . 
Tam. Pe-karakai. 
Teling. Neemeeri. 
A stout timber tree, a native of the peninsula, and 
from thence introduced by Dr. A. Berry into the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, where, in eight years, from the seed 
the young trees began to blossom in December, and the 
seed ripened in May, they were then about twenty feet 
high, and the stems eighteen inches in citcumference at 
four feet above the ground. . 
CONOCARPUS. Schreb. gen. n. 321. 
Flowers aggregate, Receptacle, common, globular, that 
of the corollets columnar raising them above the germ. 
- Calyx bowl-shaped, five-toothed. Corol none, or five-pe 
talled. Stamina five orten. Seeds naked, inferior. — 
1. C. latifolia. Roxb. 
_ Leaves obovate, sub-retuse. Peduncles ramous ; Gore 
lets apetalous, decandrous, 
Teling. Sheriman, 
This is one of the largest timber trees that is to be 
found amongst the chain of mountains, which separate 
the Circar from the Mahratta dominions, where it = 
native. It flowers during the cold season, J anuary a 
February, 
‘Trunk erect, straight, varying in length and witenaiale? 
the largest are thirty or thirty-five feet to the branches, 
and about six in circumference. Bark pretty 
of a light ash colour. Branches numerous, bee 
forming a large, high, ever green head. Leaves jes 
opposite, short-petioled, ovate, generally ema! 
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