Chrysophyllum, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 599 
Cordia retusa, Vahl, symb. ii. p. 42, 
Teling. Bapana-booree. 
A middling-sized, ramous shrub or small tree, very com- 
mon on barren lands and in forests. Flowering time the 
wet season, 
_, Leaves on the young shoots alternate, on the former branch- — 
lets fascicled, sessile, reflexed, wedge-formed, very scabrous, 
very hard above, shining, from half an inch to an inch long, 
and a quarter or half an inch broad, Peduncles from amongst 
the leaves on the woody branchlets, from two to six-flower- 
ed, Pedicels very short. Flowers small, white. Calyx 
five-parted ; divisions lanceolate, as long as the corol. Corol 
campanulate. Border five or six-cleft. Stamens five or six, 
shorter than the corol, Style two-cleft. Stigmas simple. 
Berry the size of a pea, succulent, red. Nut five or six-celled. 
7. EB. wrens Willd. i, 1077, j 
Arboreous. Leaves oblong, entire, coh. , Deaiales 
terminal and lateral. 
Found iadearecan. at the Mauritins by Colonel Hard- 
wicke, 
“CHRYSOPHYLLUM. Schreb. gen. N. 355. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol campanulate, five-parted, (ten, 
Linn.) Germ five-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inte- 
rior. Berry superior, Sveanelod, (ten, Linn. one or ten, 
Gert.) Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm, 
ares acuminatum. £. 
Leaves lanceolate, smooth, -Flimers ey: Peal glo- 
bose, five-seeded. 
Pitakara is the vernacular name about Silhet, vicae the 
tree is indigenous, and blossoms in April, The fruit ripens 
in October, and is greedily eaten by the natives; though to 
me the taste is by no means agreeable; the iin being al- 
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