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anth proper, or corol, consisting of small, wedge-shaped, trun- 
cated scales, I find it difficult to assign any determined num- 
ber to each stamen, from two to four is most common, Fi- 
laments rather longer than the scales of the calyx, tapering 
from the base. Anthers round, minute, elevated a very little 
above the surface of thespadix. FEMALE FLOWERS, Calyz; 
spathe as in the male. Ament short-peduncled, globular. 
Perianth proper, as.in A, integrifolia. Germs numerous, 
of the shape of a Florence flask ; sty/e the length of tHe ex- 
terior coat of the germ. Stigmas subulate. Fruit compound, 
the surface pretty smooth; the internal structure as in the 
genus, about the size of a man’s fist or larger, and generally 
of an irregular, roundish form, when ripe yellow. Seeds ob-. 
long, involved in the same number of integuments as in A. 
integrifolia, | 
The natives eat the fruit; to an European the taste will 
generally be found disagreeable. The male spadix is acid, 
and astringent; the natives eat them in their curries, The 
roots dye yellow. The whole tree and unripe fruit, like A. 
incisus, and integrifolia, contain much tenaceous milky juice. 
4, A. Chaplasha, Roxb. 
Leaves in the adult, obovate, entire ; in the young pinnati- — 
fid. Aments axillary; long-peduncled, sub-rotund. Fruit 
spherical. 
Beng. Chaplash., 
A native of the eastern frontier of the Province of Bengal, 
about Tipperah, and Chittagong, where it grows to be a tree 
of the first magnitude. Flowering time March and April, 
when the first flowers appear, the tree is destitute of leaves, 
but they make their appearance before the fruit is formed. 
Trunk straight ; branches numerous, ascending. Bark to- 
lerably smooth, of a dark brownish olive colour, Leaves al- 
ternate on short, round, pubescent petioles ; in young plants 
frequently, indeed generally, pinnatifid ; in grown trees oval 
or obovate, cuneate, with the margins’ somewhat remotely 
