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106 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Olea. 
3. 0. dioica, R. 
Arboreous, dioicous. Leaves opposite, shake pichaly ob- 
long, serrate, Panicles axillary. 
Atta-jam, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 
genous ; also on the hills of Chittagong. In both places it 
grows to be a pretty large tree, the timber of which is reck- 
oned excellent, and put to many uses by the natives. Flow- 
ering time the month of March and April ; fruit ripe in July. 
‘Bark of the old ligneous parts ash-coloured ; of the young 
‘shoots smooth and green. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
oblong, tapering equally at each end, remotely, and acutely 
serrate, acuminate, smooth, from four to eight inches long, by 
from two to four broad. — Stipules, the oval concave scales of 
the buds only. Panicles axillary, and opposite, below the 
leaves, thin and not above half their length. Male flowers 
moore numerous, small. Calya four-toothed. Corol one-pe- 
talled, tube very short; border four-parted. Filaments two, 
very short, inserted on the short tube of the corol. _Anthers 
oval, hid in the corol. Germ none, a small two-lobed gland 
supplies its place. #emale on a separate tree, (probably 
HERMAPHRODITE, and in that case all the corols with the sta- 
mina, must have fallen off at a very early period; which I 
have no reason to think was the case, as they were examined 
at what I consider a proper age, and no traces of the place 
where a corol grew could be found.) © Sone as in the male. 
Corol none. Germ superior, ovate, two-celled, wit ovu- 
, attached to the top of the iri ” Style short, 
Stigma two-lobed. -_Drupe nearly round, in size and colour 
much like the common sloe, Prunus Spinosa, one-celled. Nit’ 
conform to the seed, thin and rather brittle than hard, one- 
celled. Seed solitary, conform to the nut. Integument single, 
thin. Perisperm conform to the seed, firm, pearl-colour.’ 
Embryo inverse, shorter than the perisperm, and consider-— 
ably narrower. Cotyledons ovate-lanceolate, Radicle supe 
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