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Pterospermum, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 159 
Kurnikara, the Sanserit name. 
Beng. Kunuk-champa, 
I cannot say where the tree is indigenous; in Bengal, it is 
found in the gardens only, and is yet but twenty-five or 
thirty feet high ; but seems to be naturally a very large tree. 
Flowering time, the beginning of the hot season. 
Trunk short, tolerably straight. Branches spreading, but 
not near so numerous as in P, subertfolium. Bark smooth, 
light ash-coloured, Leaves petioled, alternate, bifarious, pel- 
tate, oval, repand, when young covered with much stellate 
down, as is every tender part of the tree, the same as in P, 
suberifolium ; when full-grown, upper side is smooth, and the 
under side remarkably hoary; length from eight to twelve 
inches. Petioles round. Stipules many-cleft, caducous. 
Peduneles axillary, very short, one or two-flowered. Bractes 
many-cleft, like the stipules. Flowers very large, pure 
white and fragrant. Calyx asin P. suberifolium. Petals 
_ obliquely wedge-shaped. Stem, pistil, &c. as in the genus. 
Germ as in the ripe fruit, only each of the five cells is nearly 
divided into two, by a membrane, which is not visible when 
ripe. Capsule ligneous, five-seeded, oblong, fully six inches 
lonz and about three in diameter, covered with a coarse 
dak brown, mealy substance, five-celled, five-valved. Seeds 
about twenty in each cell, attached in two rows to the inner 
edge of the triangular valves, obliquely oval, compressed ; 
from the upper end, a large brown, membranaceous, thin 
wing rises, Integument single, smooth, brown, Perisperm 
rather gelatinous, in small quantity, entering into the vari- 
ous foldings of the cotyledons. Embryo conform to the seed, 
nearly erect, pure white. Cotyledons two, large, very thin, 
variously folded or wrinkled. Radicle cylindric, inferior, 
its apex immediately opposite to the umbilicus of the seed. 
The flowers, like those of P. suberifolium, render Water 
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