164 ' MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Adansonia. ~ 
lute, hoary. Petals five, rather longer than the calyx, ob- 
liquely cuneiform. _ Stamina as in the genus, viz. fifteen 
fertile filaments, with five longer, sterile ones; all are united 
at the base, and inserted on the cylindric receptacle, which 
elevates them and the germ. Anthers fifteen, linear, erect. 
Germ oblong, five-celled, with about four seeds in each, at- 
tached to the axis. Style, the Jength of the sterile filaments. 
Stigma clavate, Capsules lanceolate, hgary, with very light 
gray, soft, short pubescence, very obscurely five-cornered, 
five-celled, five-valved. Seeds, from two to four in each cell, 
attached as in the germ, oval winged ; the wing nearly as 
broad as the seed, and about three or four times its length. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDREA. | 
ADANSONTIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1126. 
Calyx simple, five-cleft. Style long. Stigma with ten 
rays. Capsule woody, ten-celled. Seeds many in a pulp. 
A. digitata, Willd. iii. 730. 
This tree is scarce in India, and probably not a native of 
Asia, for hitherto only a few have been found of any great 
size at Allahabad, Masulipatam, on the coast of Coromandel, 
or in Ceylon. In the Botanic garden they blossom in May 
and June, and the seed ripens during the cool season. 
_ General Hay Macdowell in a letter to Dr. R. dated Man- 
tolle, (on the Island of Ceylon,) 2nd July, 1802, says :— 
“ In my walk last night on the ruins of this once rich and 
extensive city, called by the natives Mande or Maddoo- 
ooltum, I chanced to observe a tree whose prodigious mag- 
nitude induced me to measure it, and 1 found it to be nearly 
fifty feet in circumference, above six feet from the oround, 
the natives call it Peerig, and from what I have been able 
to collect, it is not indigenous here. There are a great many 
of them scattered about at this place,and it seems tome to be 
the Adansonia.” esa 
In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, are man y trees, the . aes 
