646 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Neerija. 
ovate, hairy, somewhat two-lobed, two-celled, with one pen- 
dulous ovulum in each attached to the upper end of the par- 
tition. Style short. Stigma two-lobed ; lobes reflex, adnate. 
Capsules pendulous, orbicular,two-lobed, considerably com- 
pressed, villous, two-celled, two-valved, opening all round. 
Partition opposed to the valves, The whole very exactly 
resembling the capsule of Geloneum cupanioides. Gert. 
carp. ii. 271. t. 139. Seed solitary, semi-oval ; the inner side 
being straight, the exterior rounded, arilled. Integument 
single, rather thin, smooth, chesnut colour. Avi/ deep orange, 
covering the whole seed from the base except the apex. Pe- 
risperm none. Embryo green. Cotyledons two, conform to. 
the seed, incumbent, their line of separation being nearly 
through the middle of the seed, which makes them equal. 
Radicle on the exterior or convex side of the seed, apex ra- 
ther acate, and turned up into a small hollow in the upper-_ 
most cotyledons, so that it points to the apex of the seedy 
After it has Jengthened alittle by the progress of vegeta- 
tion, the two-lobed plumula is very conspicuous, 
NEERIJA. R. 
Calyx five-leaved. Coro! five-petalled. Style simple. 
Berry superior, one or two-seeded,. : 
LN. dichotoma. R. sie (ams 
- Telinga, Neerija. - ees > ane 
A middle-sized tree, a ative of ane anciasision of Coro 
mandel, Flowers about the beginning of the hot season. — 
Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured, scabrous.. Tieesdacias 
numerous, spreading in every direction. Branchlets oppo- 
site, round and smooth, — Leaves opposite and alternate, pe- 
tiolate, oval and oblong, serrato-crenate, smooth ; about four 
as: and two broad; texture hard... Petioles round, 
e-quarters of an inch long. Panicles axillary, globu-- 
, throug] ut ‘ichotomous, with the divisions stand- 
