640 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Humea. 
two-lobed, ofa bright yellow. Germ superior, hairy, ovate, 
three-lobed, three-celled, with about six or eight ovula 
in each, attached in two verticalrows totheaxis. Style 
short. Stigma three-cleft. 
Capsules six-winged, round, three-celled, three-valved, 
each valve ornamented with two large oblong, membra- 
naceous, reticulated, expanding villous wings. Seeds 
from one to four in each cell, irregularly ovate, clothed 
with much stiff, light-brown, short hair, affixed to the 
central receptacle near its apex. The hair very readi- 
ly enters the skin and produces as much painful itch- 
ing as that of Carpopogon pruriens ( Dolichos pruriens 
Linn.) Integuments three, the exterior one friable, light- 
brown; the second tough, smooth and darker coloured ; 
the inner one a membrane adhering to the perisperm. Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed; amygdaline. Embryo in- 
verse, of a pale yellow. Cotyledons roundish, from five to 
seven-nerved. Plumulatwo-lobed. Radicle oblong, supé- 
rior, with its point immediately within the umbillicus. 
any HUMEA. R. 
- Gen. Cuar. Calyx simple, five-parted. | Corol five- 
_petalled. | Nectary five-leaved tetween the germ and 
numerous stamina. Germsuperior, five-celled ; cells two- 
seeded. Style and stigma simple. Capsules as far as 
five, one-celled, twc-valved, Seeds one ortwo. Embry 
erect, without a perisperm., | nate 
1. H. elata. R. ade 
. Mas-jot the vernacular name at Chittagong, where the 
tree is indigenous and grows to a very great size ee 
ticularly in the back part of that: province. Flowering 
time the month of May; the seed ripens in October, No- 
vember and December. S ee es 
Note. This truly majestic tree, appears to © sti .. 
a new. genus in the class Polyandria, and order Mono 
