694 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Sapium. 
ed, with glands in the axills of the nerves on the under side, 
and stipuled at the base. Male flowers octandrous, with a 
bifid calyx. 
Teling. Badeki. 
A small tree, a native of moist vallies among the Circar 
mountains, | 
Trunk straight. Branches and branchlets nearly erect. 
Bark pretty smooth. Leaves scattered, petioled, cordate, 
acuminate, serrate, three-nerved, below downy, with yellow 
glands between the origin of the nerves, above pretty smooth, 
from four to twelve inches long, and from three to eight 
broad. Petioles from two to four inches long, round, smooth, 
coloured, Stipules of the petioles subulate, caducous ; those 
of the leaves subulate, recurved and permanent. Female 
racemes terminal, one or two. Male racemes several from 
the germs over the last year’s naked branchlets below the 
leafy shoots, all erect and fliers, from two to six _— 
long. 7 
Note. In some specimens I have found the male and fe- 
male flowers on the same raceme, the male above and the fe- 
male below. Bractes in both three-fold ; the male ones many- 
flowered ; the female ones one-flowered, Male calyx with 
the segments kidney-formed, spreading. Corol none. Fi- 
laments eight, short, tapering, spreading, united near the base 
into a flat, saucer-like body. Anthers oval. Female calyx 
below, six-parted; segments narrow, acute, Coro! none. 
Germ ovate ; style short. Stigmas three, long, thread-form- 
ee Capsules three-celled, three-valved. Seed solitary. 
4, Ss. Bitches R, 
Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, entire, Berries two- 
Billa the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous, 
and grows to be a large and useful timber tree. Flowering 
time March and April; seed ripe in August. 
~ Branchlets crowded, ascending and particularly smooth. 
