572 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gordonia. 
“Annual. Leaves stem-clasping, spinous. Capsvile 
five-valved. em 
Beng. Bura sheal kanta. 
A common weed by road sides, &c. throughout India ; 
it blossoms and ripens its seed during the dry season. 
GORDONIA. Schreb. gen. ni 1144. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx five-leaved, or five-cleft. Petals 
five, inserted on the base of the united filaments. Germ 
superior, five-celled; cells from two to three-seeded ; 
attachment interior. Capsules superior, five-celled. Seeds 
winged. Embryo inferior, centripetal, with scanty peris- 
perm. 
Note. Notwithstanding the union of the ring fecih 
by the filaments, and the malvaceous structure of the seed 
vessel and seed, I am forthe present induced to pane i . 
genus in the class Polyandria. wan 
1. G. selages files R. 
Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, alta acuminate. 
Peduneles ‘axillary, solitary, one, two, or palais 7 
Capsules spherical. ? 
Hind. Makrisal. a g § 
A large timber tree, a native of the hillyt tracts. on n the 
eastern frontier of Bengal, where it flowers in _— and 
the seed = in sieaitacgaosi ids ie ogieh ait 
2. G. oblata. R. : 
-Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, serrate, acute, © 
riaceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, long, ane 
pier: oe peeetienitels ‘with two or more ae) in 
“ ‘Areas a native of Pulo Penang, where it was discover 
ed by Dr. William Miomteatht ie meee 
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