78 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA,. Premna. 
Beng. Goniari. a: 
_Cornutioides, Hor. Zeyl. N. 416. bh 
A small ramous tree, found in woods. near Calcutta, 
Flowering time, the beginning of the rainy season. The fruit 
_ ripens in three months afterwards, | 
Thorns are found on the trunk and Jarger branches only, 
large and strong, placed opposite and spreading. Leaves 
generally opposite, though sometimes three, or even four- 
fold, petioled, oval, entire, obtuse, smooth on both sides; 
from two to three inches long. Petioles short, smooth, slight- 
ly channelled. Stipules none. Corymbs terminal, pedun- 
cled, first ramification cross-armed, the rest two-forked, 
in branchlets with the leaves three-fold, the first ramifica- 
tions of the corymbs are also three-fold, &c. Bracte pasmall: ; 
one below each ramification, Flowers very numerous, ' 
a yellow, very hairy, and of an peace antl, 
| three- - Corol, tube thrice as long as the calyx; 
devai leads ; upper divisions of the border twice as long as 
the upper divisions of the border of the coro). Calyx the 
length of the stamens. Drupe globular, black, smooth, the: 
size of a small pea. /Vut turbinate, rough, four-celled. 
5.P. Settlifoiin, Roxb. i: ae 
Shrubby. Leaves cordate and cordate-ovate, entire, sali / 
with the upper surface bullate and shining. Corymbs termi-' 
nal, decussate, with ramifications dichotomous, ht grit 
Folium hiremum. Rumph, Amb. iii. t.133, agrees ra 
ther better with this species, than with any other I haye ae . | 
found in India. ah 
A native of Prince of Wales’ Island, and from pearer in- 
troduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, where 
it thrives and blossoms —- the hat months of ar and — 
June. . 2 
Trunk erect ; branches few, some etealgty: and free oft 
branchlets as a rattan; others ramulose, and straggling ; the — 
height of the plants in this garden, in four years, is from six to 
