86 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Gmelina, — 
3. G, villosa, Roxb. 
Arboreous, spinous. Leaves opposite, petioled, trapezi- 
form, rather sub-lobate, downy underneath. Racemes termi- 
nal, Bractes lanceolate, cuspidate. Drapes'spherical. 
Radix deipara. Rumph. Amb. ii. p..124.t. 39. ° ms 
A native of Pulo Pinang; from thence introduced by Dr. 
W. Hunter, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802. In 
six years, the seedling plants had reached the size of small 
trees, and are in flower and fruit all the year round. ~ 
Trunk, in our young trees, straight, as thick as. a man’s leg. 
Bark olive-coloured, Branches numerous, spreading, and 
drooping in every direction; young shoots round, and vil- 
Jous. Leaves opposite, petioled, trapeziform, with the margins 
entire, except that the rounded side angles sometimes project — 
into foley and the apex is genera y. acute; smooth on the up- 3 
er side, pale and downy on the under one, from one to four 
in c desliagand from one to two broad. Stipules none. Racemes 
terminal, simple, downy. Flowers opposite, pedicelled, droog 
ing, and scareely so large as in G, asiatica, dull yellow, ow 
account of their being clothed with ferruginous pubescence. 
Bractes large, tdnoeblaté: cuspidate, continuing till the 
flowers expand. Calyx small, obsewrely four-toothed, with 
some large glands on the under’ side, as in G. asiatica; but 
larger and more numerous, permanent, Corol with a narrow, 
curved, cylindric tube, and oblique gibbous-campanulate 
throat. © Border four-parted, of which the lower one is 
much larger, and is a continuation of the protruded side of 
the throat. Filaments curved, one of the pairs much long- 
er, Anthers bifid. Germ round, smooth, four-celled, with 
one seed in each, attached to the top of the axis, “Style as 
long as the long pair of filaments, Stigma of two, very 
unequal, acute lobes, _ Drupe spherical, size of a large 
cherry, fleshy, smooth, vie ripe yellow, one‘celled. oe 
obovate, obscurely four-lobed, smooth, four-celled, per 
ed by a conic cavity with its wide end downwards, ‘This pet- 
foration is more or less on one side of the centre, according 
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