636 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Camunium, 
fallmg off with the seeds. Seeds numerous, imbricated, both 
the ends and the exterior side membrane-winged; affixed to 
the upper end of the sharp ridges of the receptacle, &e. ex- 
actly as in Swietenia febrifuga, and Mahogani. See Gert. 
carp, ii. 86. Perisperm in very small quantity, and more 
like a fleshy interior integument, Embryo inverse. Cotyle- 
dons oval, three-nerved, Radicle obliquely superior. 
The wood of this tree issmuch like mahogany, but lighter, 
consequently not so close in the grain, It is much used for 
furniture and various other purposes. The bark is a power- 
ful astringent, and though not bitter is a tolerably good 
substitute for Peruvian Bark in the cure of remitting and 
intermitting fevers ; particularly when joined with a small 
portion of the powdered seed of Cesalpinia bonduecella, 
(Kutkuleget of the ——— which is a most — 
bitter. | 
CAMUNIUM. Rumph. 
Calyx five-toothed. Petals five. Nectary globular, apex 
perforated, inside staminiferous. Germ superior, one-cell- 
ed, from one to two-seeded ; attachment of the ovula superior. 
1. C. chinense, Rumph. Amb. v. 28. t. 18.,f. 1. 
An elegant shrub, most probably a native of China, at 
least it has been brought to the Botanic garden at Calcutta 
from Canton, under the name Sam-yeip-lan, where it blos- 
soms ‘during the hot season, and the early part of the rains — 
in June and July, but has not yet shown any tendency to ee 
duce fruit. | 3 
Stem in our young, small plant trifling, but many sree : 
and branchlets rising and spreading in every direction. 
Bark of the old ligneous paris olive gray; of the young” 
shoots green, with their very tender apices clothed with stel- 
late” ferruginous scales, Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate 
and | “wnequally pinnate. Leaflets rarely more than five,the 
Opposite, Ain Sach dominates the terminal one, all 
