138 - - MONADELPHIA HEXANDRIA., Canarium, 
petiolary, sub-orbicular ; petioles beyond the stipules colum- 
nar, below them channelled. 
Pimela nigra, Lour, Cochin Ch, 495, See Rumph, Amb. 
ii, 155. t. 49. 
Canarium Pimela, Annals of Botany, i. p. 361. 
In its native soil, the Molucca Islands, it grows to bea 
large handsome tree. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
where it has been for fourteen years, it is not more than ten 
or twelve feet high, with a distinct, straight trunk, covered 
with smooth, ash-coloured bark, the crown or corona regular, 
ample and very leafy, The stipules clearly mark this species. 
They are opposite and inserted on the common petiole, near- 
ly an inch above its base; when they fall, they leave two al 
manent, glandular stint bebind, 
4, C, migrum, R . 
Leaflets generally oblong, ni’, cimieshat a. ‘Sti. 
pules scarcely any. Male flowers on axillary, compound ra- 
cemes. 
Duleamara nigra. Rumph. Amb. ii, 162, t, 52 and 53. 
Small trees in the Botanic garden brought from Amboyna, 
began in the month of May to produce male flowers, when 
they were ten years old. 
5, C. strictum. 
Leaves hairy, leaflets cas nine to fifteen, petioled, sub-op- 
posite, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, afterwards 
serrulate-ciliate, Stipules subulate, 
A native of Tinevelly, from thence introduced into the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta, where the young trees from the 
seed are twenty or twenty-five feet high, straight, awd with- 
out a single branch. The trunk tapers like a fishing-rod but 
is stout, and covered with ash-coloured bark, while the ten- 
der parts are densely clothed with ferruginous, short pubes- 
c€--o. The leaves from three to four feet long, and the leaf- 
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