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136 MONADELPHIA HEXANDRIA, Canarium. 
MONADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 
CANARIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1516. 
_ Calyx inferior, three-toothed. Petals three. Germ supe- 
rior, three-celled, with two ovula in each ; attachment sub-su- 
perior. Drupe, with as far as three one-seeded cells. Em- 
bryo inverse, without perisperm. 
1. C. bengalense, R. 
Leaflets ovate, lanceolate, from six to ten pairs. Stipules 
subulate. Punicles sub-axillary, linear. Drupe ovate. 
An immense forest tree, a native of Silhet and the adjoining 
mountainous countries north and east of that district ; flow- 
ers in May and June, and the seed ripens about the begin- 
ning of the year. From fissures, or wounds in the bark, 
a large quantity of a very pure, clear, amber-coloured resin 
exudes, which soon becomes hard and brittle, and is not un- 
_ like copal, yet the natives set little or no value on it. It has 
hitherto, so far as I can learn, been unnoticed by any one 
else. In the Calcutta bazar, it is only valued at from two to 
three Rupees, for seven maunds of eighty pounds weight each. 
Trunk erect, straight, many feet in circumference, the 
whole tree tall, and uncommonly well furnished, Young 
shoots void of pubescence, except the thin, tender, shoot- 
ing points, and they are covered with a little rast-coloured, 
pelowet: Leaves alternate, round the ends of the branch- 
| ally pinnate, from twelve to twenty-four inches 
ong. Leaflets sub-opposite, from six to ten pairs, from 
ovate-oblong to lanceolate, firm, entire and smooth, acu- 
minate, from three to six inches long, by from one to two 
broad ; common petioles round, and smooth.. Stipules subu- 
late, clothed with long soft ferragineous down. Racemes 
solitary, insertion above the axillaj>bub=pinieled; shorter, 
in fiower and fruit all the year round. Flowers rather small, 
bu numerous, many of them abortive, male hermaphrodites. 
Calyx -ferior, cup-shaped, three-toothed. Petals sees, 
