Careya. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 637 
trees, thirteen years old, about twelve feet to the branches 
and twenty-four inchesin circumference, four feet from the 
ground. Branches scattered, and dividing without order. ° 
Bark pretty: smooth, ash-coloured, and abounding with 
very strony fibres, fit for cordage ; whole height’ of the 
young trees about thirty feet. Leaves alternate, approxi- 
mate abvut the ends of the branches, short-petioled, 
obovate-oblong, firm and glossy, obtuse-pointed, slightly- 
crenulate, from eight to twelve inches long, and from four 
to seven broad.- Stipules none. Spikes or heads termi- 
nal, sub-globular. Flowers large, sessile, crowded, from 
six to twelve toyether from the spike or head, expanding 
in succession at night, and dropping soon after sun-rise, 
inodorous. Bractes tern, embracing the base of the germ 
on the outside, ovate, smooth. Calyx superior, four, rarely 
five-parted, smooth, permanent; segments semilunar, 
firm, and fleshy. - Petals four, rarely five, oblong, obtuse, 
expanding, of a pale greenish yellow; soon afterexpansion 
the margins become so much rolled back, as to make 
them appear sharp-pointed, inserted into a hollow rim 
round the crown of the germ, within the base of the 
calyx. Filaments numerous, all united into one thick, 
fleshy ring near the base, and inserted within the petals, 
into the same ring; naturally dividing into three sorts, the 
first or innermost, short and converging : round the lower 
pait of the style, these are abortive; the second ‘nearly 
as long as the petals, and fertile ; the third as long as the 
‘petals, of a pretty deep red colour and abortivealso. An- 
thers small, and attached to the second, or middle range 
of filaments only. Germ inferior, semiquadrilocular. Recep- 
tacles four, parietal two-lobed, meeting below in the centre 
(the body of the receptacle being there exactly rectan- 
gular,) though receding in the upper part; hence four-— 
celled below, and one-celled above. Ovula numerous. and 
arranged in six vertical rows in each cell. Inthe other 
arboreous species (C, arborea) there are only two rows 
