696 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Bradleia. 
arilled, from one to three in each cell, Embryo erect and 
eet with a pica 
1B. similtilecubaria Roxb. 
Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolate, eanis smooth, 
Flowers axillary, both sorts peduncled. Capsules compress- 
ed, umbilicate, from ten to fifteen-celled. 
. Agyneja multilocularis. Willd. iv. 569. 
A small ramous tree, a native of Bengal, and in blossom 
from April till October. Is nearly allied to Dr. Buchanan’s 
Agyneja coccinea. See Col, Symes’ Embassy to Ava. 
Trunk tolerably erect, covered with pretty smooth, brown- 
ish gray bark. Branches numerous, down to the ground, 
spreading with bifarious, often drooping branchlets. Young 
shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, en- 
tire, smooth on both sides; from two to three inches long. 
Stipules subulate. - Pddancles axillary, from one to three or 
‘more together, short, one-flowered. Bractes axillary, nu- 
merous, round the insertion of the male and female pedun- 
cles. 'Male and female flowers often in the same axill, 
Male smaller and deeper yellow. Male calyx six-parted to 
the base, three are exterior, and rather longer. | Filaments 
in the centre, forming a single cylindric receptacle with from 
eight to twelve, linear grooved anthers adhering to it, Fe- 
male calyx from six to twelve-leaved; the inner series, or 
alternate divisions rather smaller, .all sub-cordate, entire, 
smooth, and permanent. Stamina none. Germ depressed, 
from ten to fifteen-lobed, united ina verticel, from ten to fif- 
-teen-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the inner an- 
gle of the cell. Stylenone. Stigma fleshy, funnel-formed, 
with its round fleshy margins marked with as many ribs as 
there are cells inthe germ, | Capsule about an inch in dia- 
meter, depressed, with the apex and base concave, sides to- 
rulose, smooth, from ten fo fifteen-celled, composed of two 
distinct tunics, opening round the base, and up the sides ; the 
exterior one generally divides into as many segments, or- 
