104 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, . Millingtoma, 
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solitary, concave on the side next the abortive cell ofthe nut, 
hemispheric on the other. Integument single, membranace- 
- ous. Perisperm none. Embryo curved, and doubled, asin , 
the Convolvulacee, with a curved inferior radicle, 
2. M. pinnata. R, 
Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets. from six to 
twelve pair, sub-opposite, lanceolate, , sc 
Batiwa, the vernacular, name in Silhet, Bet it is Sadia: 
nous, growing to be a middling o sized tree, the wood of which 
is employed by the natives in constructing their houses, 
. Flowers in April and May. The seeds ripen in September. 
Branchlets smooth, . Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate ; 
from six to eighteen inches long. Leaflets from six to twelve 
pair, sub-opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, remotely serrate, 
acuminate, smooth, three to six inches long, by, one or one 
and a half broad. Panieles terminal, very large and very ra- 
mous, a little hairy. Bractes minute. Flowers numerous, 
small, white. Calya three-leaved, with two smaller ones under 
them, which may be called bractes or a calycle ; or, the 
calyx may be called five-leaved. Nectary, from the inside 
of the base of each petal arises a variously lobed, ragged leaflet _ 
or scale, which is incurved over the germ; besides which . 
round the base of the germ is a small, three-sided cup with 
bidentate angles. Filaments two, opposite, length of the 
germ, short, broad, with enlarged apex ; from the. base on. the 
tside, rises a broad, tridentate scale, of about the length of - 
the filament, _Anthers twin, each lobe globular, opening 
transversely on the inside. Germ superior, cordate, two-celled, 
with two ovula in each cell, attached to the partition, Style 
short. Stigma small, bidentate. Drupe size of a pea, smooth, 
black, succulent, one-celled. Nut roundish, thick for its size. 
and very hard, rugose, one-celled, two-valved, with a projec- _ 
tion into the cell opposite to the remains of the style on one 
side near the base, which marks the abortive lobe. Seed so~ 
litary, conform tothe x nut. ategunent single, membannaseoms | 
