Conocarpus. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 443 
entire, smooth, from one to four inches long, and from one 
and a half to two broad, Peduncles axillary, short, round, 
smooth, ramous, each ramification supporting a little glo- 
bular head, of small yellow corollets. Calyx, common pe- 
 rianth scarcely any, a globular common receptacle unites 
the corollets, with which it is every where covered. No 
proper perianth. Corollets supported upon columnar, par- 
tial pedicels, one-petalled, imperforated, five-cleft ; seg- 
ments acute, erect, with the bottom woolly. Filaments ten, 
twice the length of the corollets, erect, inserted into the 
mouth of the tube. Anthers oblong, lower, bifid. Germs in- 
ferior, sessile, compressed, ending in the pedicel of the co- 
rollet, which is permanent, and looks like a remaining 
Stile. Style awled, rather shorter than the stamen. Stigma 
acute. Pericarpnone. Seeds single, oblong, perpendi- 
cularly surrounded with a rigid, narrow ring. Receptacle 
globular, a little scaly. 
2. C. acuminata. R. 
Leaves oval, pointed. Panicles undivided ; corollets a- 
petalous, decandrous. 
Teling. Paunchinan. 
This second species is also a large timber tree, a na- 
tive of the same places. It flowers during the cold season, 
Trunk equally high with that of the preceding species, 
but seldom or never straight. Bark ash-coloured. Branch- 
es very numerous, spreading, with their extremities pen- 
dulous like the weeping willow, the whole forming a most 
beautiful, large, regular, ever-green top. Leaves nearly 
©pposite, short-petioled, oblong, pointed, entire ; when 
young downy ; when old smooth, about two inches long, 
and one broad. Peduncles axillary, single, simple, un- 
divided ; each bearing one small globular head of small 
yellow sonolleka 7 
These trees are valuable on account of their wand 
Particularly the first, Shereman ; its. timber.is | univer 
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