Briedehia. MONOECIA GYNANDRIA. 735 
tary as in the male, Petals lanceolar; the inner nectary 
pitcher-shaped, enveloping the germ; its contracted mouth 
five-toothed. Germ ovate, two-celled, with two ovula in 
each, attached to the top of the partition. Styles two, short, 
two-cleft, Stigmas simple. Drupe superior, round, of the 
size of a large pea, succulent, when ripe of a shining black, 
two-celled. Nuts hemispherical, rugose, the exterior or con-' 
vex side, one-celled. Seed conform to the nut. Integument 
_ Single, thin, Perisperm conform to the seed, rather hard. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons retuse, Radicle oblong, su- 
perior. 
2. B. montana, Willd. iv. p. 978, 3 
Leaves long obovate, entire, smooth, Flowers axillary, 
sessile, Petals roundish, clawed. Berry two-celled. 
Cluytia montana, Roxb. Corom, pl. ii. N. 171. 
Teling. Pantenga. 
On the interior mountains it grows to be a tree, on the 
lowerands it does not grow so large. 
Trunk erect, short and thick. Branches numerous, spread- 
lng, Branchlets bifarious, twiggy. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, bifarious, obovate, or wedge-formed, smooth, entire, 
from two to three inches long, broad in proportion, Stipules 
small, acute, withering. Flowers small, green, axillary, 
_ crowded, sessile, the male and female mixed. Bractes 
minute, numerous, withering. Male flowers exactly as in 
Cluytia patula.. Female calyx, corol and nectary as in Cluy- 
tia patula. Germ superior, ovate, two-celled, with two ovula 
in each, attached to the top of the partition. Styles two, 
two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Berry globular, succulent, of the 
Size of a pea. Seeds two, oval, one side flat, the other convex. 
_ The wood of this tree like the two former is very hard and 
£ of a reddish colour. 7 
3B. B. spinosa, Willd, iv. p. 979. 
_Arboreous. | Leaves areal entire, smooth Fiver: 
