a POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Symplocos. 
the base of each germ, like a calycle. Calyx superior, five- 
parted, the five oblong segments being only slightly united 
at the base into one ring with the insertion of the filaments. 
Filaments about forty, twice the length of the coro]. An- 
thers two-lobed. Germ inferior, three-celled, with three or 
four ovula in each, attached tothe axis. Style the length . 
of the filaments. Stigma large and perforated. Drupes ~ 
the size of a pea, short, urceolate, torose, about twelve- 
ribbed, olive-coloured. Nut conform to the whole drupe, — 
thick and hard, one-celled, cell annular, &c. conformable 
to the cell in the nut. Integument single. Perisperm 
conform to the seed, oily. Embryo shorter than the pe- 
risperm, arched. Cotyledons semi-columnar. Radicle 
cylindric, much longer than the cotyledons. 
3. S. ferruginea. Roxb. 
Leaves \anceolar, serrulate, acuminate, parallel-veined, 
downy underneath. Spikes axillary, solitary, compound, 
downy. 
Foolinazur is the vernacular name in the Garo coun- 
try, where it is indigenous; it grows to the size of a small 
tree, with much soft, ferruginous pubes: Flowering time 
the latter part of the rains. 
"Leaves alternate, short, villous, petioled, lanceolar, se 
rulate, acuminate, texture hard; smooth above, downy U2- 
derneath ; from four to seven inches long, and from one to 
two broad. Stipules none. Spikes axillary, solitary, €O™- 
pound, not half the length of the leaves, very downy: 
Flowers sessile, crowded, middle-sized, yellow. Bractes 
three to each flower, like a calycle, broad ovate, downy- 
Corol rotate. Tube very short; segments of the border five; 
oblong. Filaments numerous, uineted on the sharp tube of 
the corol. Anthers two-lobed. Germ semi-inferior, downy 
three-celled ; cells with from two to four ovula in each 
attached to. ‘the upper end of the axis. -— - eng agth 
of the stamina. Stigma three-lobed, a 
