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kind of coarse cloth.* Petioles round, downy, from two to 
three inches long. Stipules ensiform, caducous at an early 
period, Aacemes terminal, and from the divisions of the 
branchlets, diverging, simple, clothed with ferruginous stel- 
late pubescence. Flowers tern, short-pedicelled, middling 
sized, inodorous, by far the greater part hermaphrodite, 
Bracies \anceolar, a larger one below the middle flower of 
the three, and a minute one under each of the other two. 
Calyx nearly rotate, with its five segments revolute, both sides 
very pubescent; the outer side pale yellow; the inner one beau- 
tifully marked with numerous, minute, purple glands ona yel- 
low ground, 4nthers about a dozen, inserted on the border of 
the thin nectarial belt which embraces the base of the germ. 
Germs long-pedicelled, globose, from three to five-lobed ; 
three most frequent, downy, from three to five-celled; each cell 
contains two vertical rows of ovula, attached to the inner 
angle of the cell. Many of the flowers are abortive, or male- 
hermaphrodite. Style, in the fertile hermaphrodite, retro- 
fracted, nearly as long as the germs; in the male-hermaphro- 
dite scarcely any. Stigma from three to five-lobed. Capsules 
from one to five, nearly round, of the size of a small apple, one- 
celled, one-valved, with the surface furrowed, orange-colour- 
* « The bark of this tree, the Malabars convert into a flaxy sub- 
stance, of which the natives of the lower coasts of Wynaad contrive 
to make a sort of clothing. It derives its name from the first process 
of its manufacture, viz. the chopping the bark into small pieces, 
aurayoonoo, to cut. It is not customary to manufacture the bark 
until the tenth year, when its size will be equal to that of most 
forest trees. The mode of obtaining this flaxy substance iss follows. 
The tree is felled, the branches lopped off, and the trunk cut into 
pieces of six feet long, a perpendicular incision made in each 
piece; the bark opened, and taken off whole, chopped, washed, 
and dried in the sun. By these means, and without any further 
_ Process, it is fit for the purpose of clothing.” 
_ For the above account we sreeblank in Lopee® Dickenson, of 
the Bombay Military establishment. 
