644 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Roydsia. 
sant odour through the forest, where they grow. The seed 
ripens in August and September. Stem stout, woody 
and with its numerous branches climbing over trees to 
a great extent. Bark of the young shoots green, void 
of pubescence, but covered with numerous, small, ele- 
vated,-whitish specks, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 
oblong, entire, of a firm texture, and smooth en both sides, 
sometimes pointed, about six inches long, and about 
two and a half and three broad. Stipules none. Inflo- 
rescence terminal, and axillary, when terminal it is gene- 
rally a long slender panicle, as long as the leaves; when 
axillary, a simple raceme. Flowers numerous, alternate, 
short-pedicelled, pretty large, of a pale yellow, and fragrant. 
Bractes solitary, oblong, villous, one-flowered. Calyx in- 
ferior, one-leaved, six-cleft, villous. Segments ovate, ina 
double series, the exterior three rather longer than the 
others. Corol none, nor any thing like a nectarial organ. 
Filaments numerous, (about 100,) the length of the pistil- 
lum, the pedicel of which is inserted on the apex of a 
short column. Anthers incumbent. Germ pedicelied 
above the elevated receptacles of the stamina, oblong, 
three-celled, with about two rows of ovula in each, at- 
tached to the axis. Style very short, Stigma trifid. 
Drupe pedicelled, of the size of a large olive, oval, covel- 
ed with a rather scabrous, orange-coloured, thin, brittle 
cortex, one-celled. Pulp in considerable quantity, soft 
and yellow. Nut oblong; texture of a ligneous nature, 
thin, one-celled, and three valved. Se eds:solitary, con- 
form to the nut. Integument single, mem branaceous. 
Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons two, unequal, 
the larger one deeply concave, receiving the smaller one 
doubled into its concavity, as in Shorea; they are of a 
firm fleshy texture, and yellowish. _ Radicle inferior, and 
rather WU te a of the cotyledons, — 2 
