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148 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, _ Fraxinus. 
structure of this part of the flower. Filaments generally 
three, as long as the style. Anthers of two round lobes, — 
Germ oblong, hid in the belly of the calyx, one-celled; 
ovulum single, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style 
slender. Stigma peltate. Pericarp turbinate, five-sided, 
covered with clammy, pedicelled glands, &c. exactly as in — 
Geertner’s figures of his Boerhaavia erecta, 
Obs. There are two varieties of this plant in Bengal ; one 
with red, the other with white flowers ; in other respects they 
are the same. In the St, Helena plant, B. repanda of the : 
Hortus Bengalensis, the leaves are more angular, the inflores- 
cence terminal, racemes yerticélled, with one bracte only to 
cart pedicel, ~ 
FRAXINUS. 
-Polygamous. Calyx none, or four-parted. Corot none, or» 
four-petalled. Samara one-seeded, with lanceolate wings. 
1. F. chinesis. R. 
Arboreous, with erect branches. Leaflets from three to 
seven, lanceolate, serrate. Panicles axillary, and terminal, 
Flowers without petals. ' 
A native of China, from thence introduced into the Bota- 
nic garden by the late Col, Robert Kyd, prior to 1793: 
where they blossom in April, but have not pias me or 
~ even full grown seed vessels. 
Our small trees have little or no trunk ; but several, hect, 
‘aight branches and branchlets ; giving an entire height of 
from ten to twelve feet. Leaves opposite, pinnate, and ternate, 
Leaflets from three to seven, opposite, lanceolar, serrate, 
smooth, The pairs short-petioled,.much smaller and shorter 
in proportion to their breadth than the terminal one, which is 
protruded on a longer*winged petiolet, Petioles channelled, 
eae, with a marginal wing. Panieles axillary, and 
_ termin i pel, 2 Sons and* composed of most slender, 
, sub-verticelled ramifications, alate 2 
