Baeobotrys. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 559 
digenous._ It_grows to be a pretty large shrub, blossoms i in 
March and April; and the seeds ripen in October mu Novem 
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ber. 
Leaves ae short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, e1 en- 
"tire, smooth, from two to six inches long. Panicles terminal, 
axillary, and lateral, numerous, small, crowded with small, 
abortive, ferruginous, ramentaceous branchlets. lowers 
small, greenish-yellow. Bractes ferruginous, small, subulate, 
Calyx five-parted, almost five-leaved. Corol; tube very 
small, Border of five orbicular, veined segments, Filaments 
five, short, inserted into the tube of the corol. Anthers two- 
lobed, broad-ovate. The germ may be called superior, ovate, 
smooth, one-celled ; ovuda numerous, on a sub-cylindric re- 
ceptacle, rising from the base of the cell, Style short. Stigma 
two or three-lobed.. Berries completely inferior, size. of a 
grain of black pepper, white, smooth, succulent, one-celled, 
Ceil formed by a white, pretty hard, but thin, nuciform inte- 
gument, Seeds several, minute, angular, black, pitted, at- 
tached to the free, central receptacle, as in the germ. Integu- 
ments uncertain, on account of the diminutive size of the seed, 
Perisperm soft, juicy, dark-coloured. Embryo sub-cylindric, 
transverse, oe 
“3. B. semoritieg: Willd. spec. i. 992. 
Shrubby. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, repand-dentate, 
smooth. Racemes axillary, short, and crowded, 
_ Mulmooriya is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 
digenous and grows tothe size of a pretty large, very ramous, 
upright shrub, It aoe in March, and the goods ripe in 
May. 
Branches and ‘brisibhis ‘numerous, Suki reek, aid 
and pretty smooth. Bark of the old woody parts brown, of 
the young shoots green, Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate- 
oblong, margins repand, serrate-dentate, (for there is a mix- 
ture of the whole,) in some acuminate, both sides smooth, tex- 
ture firm, three or four inches long, by two broad, Racemes 
