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160 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Pterospermum. 
2. P. suberifolium. Willd, iii. 728. 
Leaves cuneate-oblong, towards the apex repand-dentate. 
Pentapetes suberifolia, Linn. Cavan. &c. 
_..~Moochukoonda, Asiat. Res. ii, 349. 
Tam. Taddo-marum, 
Beng. Moochukoonda, Muskunda. 
A native of mountainous tracts all over India, Flowering 
time the beginning of the hot season. 
Trunk erect, growing to be a timber tree of middling size. 
Branches numerous in all directions; young shoots, leaves, 
petioles, bractes, and calyx, covered with stellate, rust-colour- 
ed hairs, Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, cuneate- 
oblong, repand-dentate round the apex, in some plants deep- 
ly lobate, sometimes even peltate and pinnatifid. Flowers 
axillary, short-peduncled, large, pure white, fragrant, some- 
thing like the best cloves. Bractes,from four to six surround- 
ing the base of the calyx, like an inferior perianth, wedge- 
formed; the exterior half variously and deeply divided. 
Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets linear, very long, revolute, hairy 
on the mside. Petals obliquely wedge-formed. Filaments in- 
serted into a columnar receptacle round the apex of the base 
of the oblong hairy germ, as in Grewia, Anthers a pollinife- 
rous groove on each side of the upper third, or fourth part of 
the filaments. Germ elevated on a strong, columnar recep- 
tacle, common to it and the stamens, Capsule and seed as 
in the germs. The wood is white, and too soft to be of much 
3. P. semi-sagittatum. Buch. 
Leaves sub-lanceolate, entire, base of the inferior half pro- 
truded. Flowers terminal, and solitary, Capsule oblong- 
elliptic, densely clothed with stellate pubescence. 
Found by Dr. Buchanan at Chittagong, and from thence 
seeds were sent by him to the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 
1797, where the trees grow luxuriantly, and flower about 
the close of the hot season, ripening their seeds ten months 
