Gmelina. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 83 
cleft.. Germ superior, four-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 
ment sub-superior. Drupe with a nut, from one to four-cell- 
ed. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 
1. G, oblongifolia, R é‘ 
Arboreous, Leaves opposite, oblong. Panicles terminal, 
brachiate. Drupes oblong, lucid. . A’slow growing, tall tim- 
ber tree; a native of the eastern parts of Bengal ; flowering 
in March and April; the seed i gal in si and werd 
ber, 
Trunk, in trees fourteen years old i in as Botanic sithe, 
straight, from twelve to fifteen feet to sar branches, and 
about eighteen inches in circumference.” Bark ash-co- 
loured, and a little cracked. ~ Branches aaliegs You 
shoots somewhat four-sided, total: height of “our young 
trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
from oval to oblong, entire, somewhat rough, rather obtuse, 
with a glandular impression on each side of the base of 
the rib or nerve; from six to ‘twelve inches long, and from 
three to eight broad. -Petioles about two inches long, chan- 
nelled, Stipules none. Panicles terminal, solitary, broad: 
ovate, decussate; ramifications four-corneréd, clothed with. 
a brownish mealiness. Bractes small, and very early cadu- 
cous. | Flowers numerous, large, rosy and fragrant. ~ Calyx 
cyathiform, entire, mealy,a few glands on the outside. Corol 
irregular. Tube short and curved. Throat obliquely campa- 
‘pulate. Border five-parted ; lower segment longer, witha — 
deep yellow mark in the centre of its base. Stamina as in the 
genus. Anthers bipartite. Germ superior, turbinate, smooth, 
four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached frou a little 
under the apex, to the: upper part of the axis, Sfyle the 
length of the stamina. Stigma of two unéqual- lobes. Drupe 
oblong, somewhat four-cornered, and obtuse, size of a ‘Taaye 
olive, smooth, when ripe of a shining bright crimson’ our, 
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