736 MONOECIA GYNANDRIA, Briedeha. 
spiked, Petals round, curled, clawed. Nectary in the male 
flowers double. Berries two-sided, 
Cluytia spinosa, Roxb. Corom, pl. ii, NN’. 172. 
Teling. Kora man. 
This is a tree of considerable size, a native of the Circar. 
mountains, as well as of various parts of Bengal, where it blos- 
soms during the rainy season, chiefly in July, and the seeds 
ripen in December. 
Trunk straight. Bark scabrous. Branches disposed as in 
the last. Thorns a few over the larger branches, large and 
strong. Leaves also disposed in the same manner, oblong, 
pointed, entire, firm, smooth, with many parallel protuberant 
veins running from the centre to the circumference, about 
five inches long, and two and a half broad. Spikes axillary or 
terminal, glomerate ; flowers collected in bundles leaving the 
interstices naked. Flowers small, of a greenish yellow, male 
and female mixed. Male calyx and corol as in the two last 
species. . Nectary double, the exterior saucer-shaped and the 
interior cup-shaped, sitting on the exterior, or that which is 
saucer-shaped, and divided to near the base, into five seg- 
ments; divisions narrowing towards the point, with the ex-— 
tremities three-toothed. Stamens ; filaments five, inserted into 
in erect colamn, Female calyx and corol as in the male, 
Nectary gibbous, surrounding the germ entirely, and leav- 
ing only a small opening for the styles to pass, and there 
five-toothed. Germ ovate. Styles two, two-cleft. Stigmas 
simple. Berry globular, of the size of a pea, naconien? 
black. Seeds two. 
The bark i is a strong astringent. The wood dark ee 
hard and durable, Cattle eat the leaves greedily ; they are 
said to destroy worms in their bowels. 
4, B, scandens, Willd. iv. p. 979. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong, downy underneath. 
Petals roundish, crenulate, clawed. : 
_ Cluytia scandens, Roxb. Corom. pl. ii. N, 173. 
