102 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. —Millingtonia. 
_ Bhooeemoora, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 
grows to be a very large tree, and furnishes the natives, &c. 
with very hard durable wood. Flowering time June and 
July ; the seed ripens in January and February. 
Young shoots void of pubescence, but dotted with small 
whitish specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, entire, smooth; three or four inches 
long, and one or one and a half broad. Panicles terminal, 
large, very ramous; ramifications four, round, and villous. 
Flowers oblong, acute, villous, Calyx bowl-shaped, four- 
toothed. Corol campanulate. Tube very short; border — 
four-parted, Filaments short, inserted on the little tube of 
the corol opposite to each other. Anthers oblong. Germ 
superior, depressed, two-celled, with two ovula in each, at- 
tached to the top of the partition. Style and stigma clavate, 
apex flat and emarginate. Berries (for they can scarce be 
called drupes) sub-cylindric, smooth, succulent, dark olive- 
purple,*size of a large berry, rarely more than one-celled, 
Seed solitary, conform to the berry. Integuments two ; exte- 
rior fibrous, and striated ; interior rather thick, brown, a 
ing to the perisperm. Recinert conform to the seed, oily. 
Embryo straight, nearly as long as the perisperm, inverse, 
Cotyledons lanceolate, _ Reels pit superior. 3 
MILLINGTONUA. eo es. 
tee three-leaved, calycled, Corol duenscetellel, mace 
rial scale on the inside of each. Germ two-celled, two-seeded,. 
Drupe with one, or two-celled, two-valved nut ; seed solitary. 
Embryo curved and folded, with little or no sissies and 
with a curved inferior radicle, 
Having found it necessary to deprive our ounngaen the 
late Sir Thomas Millington of the genus assigned to his me- 
many lg, the penne ree Ca. 45 and 201) —- 
