Senet. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 623 
the most palatable. It is a native of Chittagong, and flow- 
ers in gos ; the fruit ripens in June. | 
4. G. detain Be 
Leaves narrow, lanceolar, acute. Flowers terminal, 
solitary. Stigma, from six to eight-lobed. Berry tarbi- 
-_ with as far as eight seeds. 
- A small tree, a native of Silhet, where it is known to 
the natives by the name Kirindur, and by them cultivat- 
ed for the fruit, which they are fond of. Flowering time 
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in February ; its fruit ripens inJuly. 9 
5.6. Kydia. B eae tes 
_ Dioecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar. 
(Male flowers in terminal and lateral wmbellets ; female 
also terminal and lateral, but solitary, and sessile, with 
four sets of unequal, abortive stamina, alternate with the 
petals. Berry from four to eight-seeded, apex depressed 
with an elevated nipple-like centre, crowned with the 
stigma, — ty 
_ A native of the Andaman Islands, where it was disco- 
vered by Col. Alexander Kyd, and by him introduced into 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1794, where, when 
about ten years old, it began to blossom in February, and 
‘the fruit to ripen in July. Trunk straight, to the top of 
the tree, as in the common fir, &c. and in trees sixteen 
years old twenty-seven inches in circumference at four 
feet from the ground. Branches numerous, spreading far 
and regularly. Bark pretty smooth, of greyish brown; if 
it be wounded, a yellow exudation frequently takes place, 
- which hardens into an inferior kind of gamboge ; the ex- 
- treme height of young trees about thirty feet. Leaves op- 
posite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, acute, entire, firm 
and polished, from four to six inches long, and from one — 
to one and a half broad. Stipules no other than atitite , 
black or brown gland on each side of the petioles. 
