Bassia, POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 523 
one-petalled. Tube very short. Border of five obliquely 
oblong, spreading, smooth segments. Filaments from 
twenty to thirty, short, broad, inserted at the bottom of the 
tube of the corol. Anthers clavate, opening, with two 
pores at top. Germ superior, ovate. Style short, three- 
cleft; segments long and recurved. § Stigmas simple. 
Berry three-celled, with numerous seeds in each cell, in- 
serted on large receptacles, rising from the axis. 
BASSIA. Schreb. gen. n. 805. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx four or fiye-leaved. Corol one-pe- 
talled ; border about eight-cleft. Germ superior, from six 
to eight-celled, cells one-seeded, attachment interior. Em- 
bryo erect, no perisperm. 
1. B. longifolia. Willd. 2. 842. Gert. sem. 2. 104. ¢, 104. 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers crowded round the ends 
of the branchlets, drooping. Stamina from sixteen to 
twenty, within the gibbous tube of the corol. 
Tam. Ulupi. 
A native of the peninsula of India, and found in planta- 
tions along the southern part of the coast of Coromandel. 
It flowers during the hot month of May, the seed ripens 
in August and September. 
Trunk pretty straight, and of considerable thickness, 
but short, in proportion to the size of the tree. Branches 
humerous, dividing much, and spreading far, forming a 
very extensive, shady head ; young shoots downy, Leaves 
Crowded about the ends of the branchlets immediately 
above the peduncles, lanceolate, smooth, entire. Petioles 
from one to two inches long, round, slightly villous. Sté- _ 
pules ensiform, downy, very early caducous. ~ Pedun- 
cles crowded round the base of the young villous shoots, 
twenty-three inches long, drooping, one-flowered. __ The 
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