Berria. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 639 
Carey, whose name the genus bears. Its numerous, very 
large beautiful pink flowers appear in February and March 
and the seed ripens in June and July. 
BERRIA. R. 
Ger. Cuar. Calyx five parted. Corol five-petalled. 
Germ superior, three-celled ; cells many-seeded ; attach- 
ment anterior. Capsule three-seeded, three-yvalved, six- 
winged, Seeds a few in each cell. Embryo inverse and 
furnished with a perisperm. 
_ B. Amomnilla, R.* 
Cing. Ammonilla. — 
- Eng. Trincomalee wood tree, 
A native of Ceylon and one of their largest and most. 
useful timber trees. Much of the wood is annually ex- 
ported from Trincomalee. Trank in young trees in the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, straight with smooth, light 
brown bark, and an extensive, very dense, shady head, 
Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, sometimes slightly 
scolloped, from five to seven-nerved, acute, smooth on 
both sides, from four to eight incheslong. Petiolesrather - 
shorter than the leaves, slender, round, smooth, and often 
coloured. ‘Stipules ensiform, Panicles terminal, and axil- 
lary, large, ramose, bearing ‘numerous, elegant, middle- 
sized white flowers. Calyx one-leaved, downy, on the 
outside splitting irregularly into three, four, or five, seg- 
ments, permanent. Petals five-spreading, linear-oblong, 
double the length of the calyx or more. , Filaments nu-. 
merous, half the length of the petals. Anthers incumbent, 
* This Dr. R. is inclined to consider a perfectly distinct, and 
well marked, hitherto undeseribed genus, which he has named after _ 
Dr. Andrew Berry « of Madras, an eminent Physician and Botanist,. 
to whose abilities and industry, the Botanic garden at Calcutta is_ 
much indebted, Bie iricee? aig to Jussieu's mal et 
Malwacee. © 
