454 _ DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Cnestis,. 
CNESTIS. Juss. 
Calyx five-leaved (five-parted, Juss.) Corol five-petal- 
led. Germ five, superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attach- 
ment inferior. Capsules from one to five, one-celled, 
one-valved (two-valved, Juss.) Seeds solitary, attached 
to the base of the cell. Embryo inverse, without peris- 
perm, : 
C. monadelpha. R 
Shrubby. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets five or seven, sub- 
alternate, oblong, obtuse, acuminate, polished. Panicles 
axillary, crowded, Filaments united at the base. 
Sookurtothee of the Hindus about Silhet, where the 
shrub grows. Itis also found on the hills of Chittagong, 
and there called Kowatothee ; the natives eat the fresh 
aril of the ripe seeds. Flowering time the gape | season ; , 
the seed ripens in October. 
Compare with Geriner’s Aegiceras minus. 
Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate ; from six to eight 
inches long. Leaflets five or seven, sub-alternate, short- 
petiolate, from ovate to oblong, entire, firm, polished, 
obtusely acuminate, from two to five inches long, 4% 
from one to two broad, the. exterior by far the largest. 
Stipules ensiform. § Panicles axillary, several toge- 
ther; slender, smooth, nearly as long as the leaves. 
Pisibe’s numerous, small, sub-campanulate, white 
fragrant. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets broad-ovate, subci- 
liate, permanent. Petals five, linear-oblong, margins. 
connected for a little way near the base, above that os 
campanulate, Filaments ten, alternately long, 
toward the base, and there united into a ring” a 
the lower half of the: germ. -Anthers oval, incu 
