Bradleia. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 695 
Leaves petioled, alternate, broad-ovate lanceolate, acuminate, 
entire, glossy ; from three to six inches long, by from one and 
a half to two and a half broad, having no glands at the base, 
but the margins are a little swelled where they join the pe- 
tiole, Petioles from one to two inches long, smooth. Stipu- 
les; male aments terminal and axillary, slender and sim- 
ple, the terminal ones sub-panicled, the axillary ones solita- 
ry, as long as theleaves. Bractes or scales of the ament cu- 
cullate, many-flowered, with an oblong gland on each side, as 
observed by Jussieu in his account of the habit of the genus 
sapium, #lowers very minute, pedicelled. Calyx four- 
toothed, Corol none. Filaments two, very short ; anthers 
two-lobed, opening in the sides. Racemes; female flowers 
on a different tree, terminal and axillary, but fewer and 
shorter than the male. Flowers solitary, pedicelled. Bractes 
and calyx asinthe male. Corol none. Stamina none. Germ 
superior, round, compressed, two-celled, with one ovulum in 
each attached to the top of the axis. Style none. Stigmas 
two, recurved. Berries globular, of the size of a small goose- 
berry, smooth, purple, two-celled, Seed solitary, of the size 
of a betel nut, unequally oblong, the inside being straighter, 
Integuments two, the exterior one fibrous ; the inner one some- 
what nuciform, brittle, dark brown. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, very oily. Embryo inverse, Cotyledons oval, near- 
ly as broad and long as the perisperm, three-nerved. Radi- 
ele superior, large, oval. 
BRADLELA. Schreb. gen. N. 1474. 
Male calyx six-leaved in a double series,  Corol none. 
Anthers a few round the apex of a central column, Female 
calyx from six to twelve-leaved, in a double series. Style 
none or short. Germ superior, mapy-celled ; cel/s from one 
to three-seeded ; attachment internal. Stigma perforated at 
the top, with a many-lobed ray, corresponding with the cells 
in the germ, Capsule many-celled, many-valved, Seeds 
