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Pterospermum. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA.,. 163 
ma clavate, five-grooved, Capsule woolly, clavate-oblong, 
without angles, slightly marked with five longitudinal lines, 
where the valves separate, from two to three inches long, 
and about one in diameter, generally obtuse, densely cloth-— 
ed with hoary, stellate pubescence, five-celled, five-valved. 
Seeds as far as four in each cell, two generally ripening, ob- 
liquely oval, compressed ; on the upper end is a thin, broad, 
brown, membranaceous wing. Lnteguments two ; the exterior 
one thick, with a rough, brown, spongy surface ; the inner 
one tough, and lightly coloured. Perisperm conform to the 
seed, thin. Embryo erect. Cotyledons foliaceous, intricate- 
ly folded. Radicle cylindric, inferior, 
Velaga xylocarpa, Gert, Sem. ii. 245. t. 133. f. 2, agrees 
uncommonly well with the carpology of this, exept in the 
number of seeds in each cell of the capsule; here there can- 
not be more than four, that being the number of their rudi- 
ments in the germ. 
&. F, lanceefolium. R. 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Flowers axillary, 
long-peduncled, Capsule lanceolate ; cells from two to four 
seeds, | | c | 
Beng. Bun Kulla. : 
A tree, a native of the forests in the neighbourhood of Sil. 
het, where it blossoms about the beginning of the rains in 
May and June; and the seed ripens at the beginning of the 
cold season, 
Young shoots slender, hoary, and uncommonly straight. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, with a round base, 
entire, acuminate, hoary underneath, from three to six inches 
long by one and a half broad, Stipules generally bifid, or 
trifid, ferruginous, Peduneles axillary, half the length of the 
leaves, round, slender, clavate at top, supporting a single, 
pretty large, white fragrant flower. Bractes two, or three, 
rather above the middle of the peduncle, like the stipule, 
a more divided, Calyx five-cleft; segments linear, Tevo- 
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