630 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Hovenia. 
Obs. This plant is generally dioicous. The smell of the — 
flowers is very offensive, not unlike that of Sterculia fetida, — 
HOVENTIA. Schreb. gen. N. 375. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled.. Germ superior, 
three-celled ; ced/s one-seeded; attachment inferior, Style 
three-cleft. Capsule tricoccous, Embryo erect, with scan- 
ty perisperm. avs 
1. H. dulcis, Thunb. japon. 101. Willd. spec. i. 1141. 
mre te de Ken et Kenpikonas, Kaempf. amoen. p. 808. 
t. 809. — 
A tree, a native of Nepal; from thence introduced by Dr. 
Buchanan into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 7 
eight years old, it began to blossom in April. 
Trunk in our young trees straight and high, from ten to 
twelve feet to the branches ; and twenty mehes in cireumfer- 
ences, four feet above the earth. Total height about thirty 
feet. Bark smooth, dark-brown. Branches spreading much, 
branchlets bifarious, round; young shoots hairy. Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, cordate, acutely serrate, acuminate, 
three-nerved, smooth above, a little hairy underneath ; from 
four to six inches long, by from two to four broad. Stipules 
lanceolate, hairy, caducous. Cymes axillary, rarely termi- 
me: dichotomous, villous; divisions clavate. Flowers nu. 
merous, small, white. Ca/ya one-leaved, acetabuliform, i in- 
side hairy. Border five-parted ; divisions ovate, reflexed. 
Petals five, inserted within the fissures of the calyx, broad 
spatulate, sides incurved round the filaments, Filaments 
five, longer than the petals, recurved. Anthers ovate. 
Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with one-ovulum in each, 
attached to the bottom of its cell. Style cylindric, apex 
hree-clett, | Stigmas simple. Capsules superior, round, size 
ofa pea, thin, smooth, and brown, three-celled, The ramifi- 
Lata ee —_ saves the seeds are ripe, much 
