Briedelia. MONOECIA GYNANDRIA,. 737 
Scherunam cottam. Rheed. Mal. ii. t. 16. 
Teling. Doonkiboora. 
A large, woody, climbing species, common on banks of ri-. 
vers and water courses in the Circars. _ It flowers in Novem- 
ber and December. > 
Trunk scarcely any ; branches long, climbing, with their 
_ extremities flower-bearing and pendulous, Bark ash-colour- 
ed. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, oval, entire, 
downy underneath, various in size. Stipules cuneiform, as 
long as the petioles. Flowers’ small, of a yellowish green, 
either axillary, crowded, and sessile, or interrupted, leafy, ter- 
minal, or axillary, generally male on one branch; and female - 
on another. Male flowers as in Cluytia patula; except that. - 
in this species, the petals are not at their extremities, Fe~ 
male calyx and corol as in the male. Nectary, double as 
in Briedelia spinosa, and in every respect the same. » Germ. 
superior, ovate, hid in the inner nectary, two-celled, with two 
ovula in each, attached to the middle of the partition, Styles 
two, two-cleft. Stigmas simple. . Berry oblong, juicy, 
smooth, of the size of a large field bean, when ripe it is of a 
rusty black colour. Seeds two, Embryo inverse and fur-, 
nished with a perisperm. 
5. B. lanceefolia, R. 
Monoecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar,obtuse, smooth, glau- 
- ous underneath. Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile. ole : 
tals roundish, dentate. Berries globular, . igh 
A tree of considerable size and quick growth, a native vor 
Bengal. In the Botanic garden, they have attained to the 
height of twenty feet in four years, thick and ramous in pro- 
_ portion, They blossom’ at various times of the year, but 
chiefly about the close of the rains, and the small, round, dark . 
Pipl essien pen in the evo seqeon: il 
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