Symplocos. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 539 
14. D. stricta. R. 
Trunk straight to the top of the tree. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate. Male peduncles from three to six-flowered ; 
slamina sixteen on a convex receptacle. 
A tall slender conical tree with a trunk perfectly straight, 
as in the Firs, to the very tep; a native of i dace it 
flowers in March. 
The female tree unknown. 
15. D. bracteata. R. 
Leaves oblong, acute. Fertile flowers solitary and 
bracted: styles four. Berry with as many as eight seeds. 
A native of the Dooab; ne male tree has not been 
found. 
SYMPLOCOS. Schreb. gen. n. 1223. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx superior, five-parted. Corol 
one-petalled, rotate, with the stamina inserted on its base. 
Germ semi-infera, three-celled; cells few-seeded; attach- 
ment to the upper end of the axis. Drupe inferior, thir- 
teen-celled. Seeds one or two. Embryo inverse, and fur- 
‘nished with a perisperm. ; 
1. S. racemosa. Roxb. 
Racemes axillary. Leaves oblong, smooth, serrulate, 
Sans, Savura, Lodhra. 
Beng. Lodh. 
A small tree of from twelve to twenty feet high, a 
native of Burdwan and Midnapore in Bengal. Flower- 
ing time the month of December ; the seed ripens in May. 
Compare this plant with Myrtus Retz. obs. 4. p. 26. 
Trunk about twenty inches in circumference. Bark 
somewhat rough, with a spongy, friable, exterior grey 
coat, inwardly of a firm, fieshy texture ; when frei of 
avery. iid yellowish colour, and the taste mildly as- 
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