Milnea, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ~ 637 
oblong, but tapering most toward the base, smooth, deep 
green, entire, obtuse ; from an inch and a half to four inches 
long, and from half an inch to two inches broad. _Petioles 
somewhat winged, and channelled. Panicles, sometimes only 
racemes, axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, Flowers 
minute, yellow, faintly fragrant. Bracies ovate, one embrac- 
ing the insertion of each pedicel. Calyz flat, five-toothed ; 
teeth semi-lunar. Petals five, oval, concave, at all times 
pressing on the nectary, smooth, much longer than the calyx. 
Nectary sub-globular, mouth contracted, and slightly five- 
toothed... Filamenis scarcely any. Anthers five, cordate, 
attached to the nectary near its base on the inside. Germ 
superior, oblong, hairy, one-celled, with one or two seeds, 
which are attached to the top of the cell. Style none, Stig- 
ma large, conical, sient 
MILNEA. Roxb. 
Calyx five-parted. Petals five. Nectary urceolate, with 
the five anthers round its inside. Germ three-celled ; cells 
from one to two-seeded ; attachment centripetal, no peris- 
perm, : 
In honour of Colin Milne, LL. D. author of a Botanical 
Dictionary, Institutes of Botany, and other works, 
1, M. adil, R. 
A tree of middling size, a native of the “ ow hills and of 
the Silhet district, where it is called Gumi by the natiyes, 
who eat the large succulent aril which surrounds theseed un- 
der the cortex of the berry. Flowering time June and July. 
~The fruit: ‘ripens two or three months afterwards, 
Young shoots densely clothed with dark brown eat 
when more advanced smooth. Leaves alternate, unequally 
pinnate, from six to twelve inches long. Leaflets from three 
to six pair, sub-opposite, petiolate, lanceolate, entire, smooth 
but not lucid, apt: acuminate, from. three to six inches 
