600 _- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Tectona, 
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most insipid, and though tolerably firm, uncommonly clam- 
my, adhering to the lips or knife, with great tenacity, - 
A sasahdtangcized tree, with numerous slender, emodth, 
round branchlets, 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, acumi- 
nate, polished on both sides, except while young, then cloth- 
ed with ferruginous down; veins small, simple and parallel ; 
from three to four inches long, and one and a quarter broad. 
Peduncles axillary, several together, recurved, one-flowered, 
Flowers minute, pale yellow. Calyx five-leaved, leaflets 
oval. Corol one-petalled. Tube the length of the calyx, 
border five-parted, segments oval. Filaments five, inserted 
into the tube of the corol near the base. Anthers in the mouth 
of the tube. Germ inferior, ovate, very hairy, five-celled, 
with one oyulum in each, attached to the middle of the axis, 
Style short. Stigma five-lobed. Berries spherical, size of 
a small crab-apple, smooth, when ripe yellow. Pu/p in con- 
siderable quantity, five-celled. Seeds solitary, attached to 
the axis by the greater part of the length of the thin inner 
edge, smooth, polished, of a shining brown colour. _Peris- 
perm conform to the seed, yellowish. Embryo extended 
through the whole perisperm, erect. | Cotyledons obliquely 
ovate, thin, three-nerved, Radicle curved, sub-cylindrie, 
inferior, . 
ae _ TECTONA. | Sched. be gen: N. 856. 3 
pericarp. “Corol psa Som Sar velled ; ; cell one- 
seeded ; attachment central. Drupe superior, dry, hid in the 
calyx. Mut four-seeded, Seed solitary. Embryo eres, 
without perisperm. 
saat T. grandis. Willd. sp. i. 1088. Roxb, a Lae Ge 
ee omar: “Laie 24 
