Cluytia. MONOECIA GYMANDRIA, 731 
A middling sized tree, a native of the forests of Silhet, 
where it is called Dookesa. It furnishes the natives with 
hard durable wood, fit for various economical purposes, 
Flowering time the end of the hot season; the seed ripens in 
August and September. 
Twigs straight, slender and smooth. Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, short-petioled, oblong, entire, sub-acuminate, hay- 
ing the upper surface polished, and the under one glaucous, 
from four to six inches long, by two and a half broad. 
Flowers numerous, sessile, small, crowded into little, round, 
axillary heads, or in little lateral and terminal spikes. Brac- 
tes numerous amongst the flowers, small and hairy, Calyx 
in both male and female five-parted, permanent ; segments 
tapering and smooth, Petals in both five, generally small- 
er than the calyx, obcordate, three-toothed. Stamens in the 
male flowers five, inserted on a column, as in the genus. In 
the female ones none. Germ superior, the base embraced 
by a five-toothed cup. Styles and stigmas as in the genus. 
Capsule short-pedicelled above the permanent calyx, of the 
size of a cherry, smooth, three-lobed, three-celled, six-valv- 
ed, Seed solitary, with inverted embryo, as in the other 
Euphorbie. 
3. C. diversifolia. R. 
Leaves sub-sessile, from obovate and obtuse to broad-lan- 
ceolate and acute, smooth and entire. Stipules ensiform, 
Flowers axillary, sessile. Petals obovate. Stigmas three- 
cleft, i 
A native of the Malay Islands. 
‘Branchiets downy. Leaves bifarious, short-petioled, from 
oblong and obtuse, to broad-lanceolate and acute, all entire 
and smooth on both sides, from four to five inches long. Sé- 
pules ensiform, downy. Flowers axillary, male and female 
mixed, both perfectly sessile, and scarcely ionger than the 
stipules. Male calyx of five acute, erect, smooth segments, 
Petals five, roundish, obovate, inserted by short claws on the 
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