Briedelia, MONOECIA GYNANDRIA, 733 
though when young inst are the radiments of two, Mae 2 
smooth, of the size of a pea. 
The bark, or outer crust of the capsule is reported to be 
exceedingly poisonous. The wood of the tree is of a red- 
dish colour, exceedingly hard, and durable. 
5. C, patula, Willd, iv. 884, R. Corom. pl. ii. N. 170. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, pointed, smooth, entire. Flowers 
axillary, or on axillary spikes. Petals round, crenulate, 
clawed. Capsules tricoccous. 
A much larger tree than col/ina, a native of moist valleys 
amongst the Circar mountains. it flowers during _ hot 
season, : 
Trunk straight, from fifteen to twenty feet to the branches, 
Bark pretty smooth, dark-coloured, thin and hard, Branches 
very numerous, spreading horizontally, and forming a large 
shady head. Branchlets bifarious, twiggy. Leaves alter- 
nate, short-petioled, bifarious, oblong, attenuated to a long, 
slender point, entire, smooth, shining, about three inches ove 
by one and a half broad. Siipules small, Flowers nearly 
sessile, male and female collected in little bundles in the 
axills, sometimes on small axillary, interrupted spikes. Brac- 
tes small, numerous, chaffy, surrounding the insertions of the 
‘flowers, Male calyx as in the former species. Petals five, 
orbicular, crenulate, many times smaller than the calyx, in- 
serted by claws, Nectary saucer-shaped. Stamens as in the 
former species. Female calyx and corol as in the male, 
Nectary cup-formed, embracing only about a third of the 
germ, Germ superior, ovate, hairy. Styles three, two-cleft. 
Stigmas small. Capsule the size of a small pent three- 
celled, three-valved. Seed solitary. 
~ The wood of this tree is of the colour of dried rose leaves, 
also hard and dutables 
ay BRIEDELIA. Wilid. . 
“Mate calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled, inserted on 
