756 _ DIOECIA TRIANDRIA. Excoecaria. 
ly inverse, pure white. Cotyledons round-cordate, three- 
nerved. Plumula minute. Radicle oblong, pointing ob- 
liquely up between the vertex and the stigma. 
All the young parts of this plant are covered with more or 
less of soft, resinous, adhesive matter, which smells strongly 
of turpentine. 
EXCOECARIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1498. 
Mae. Ament cylindric, imbricated with one-flowered 
scales. Corol five-petalled. FEMALE, Ament scaly. Pert- 
anth three-leaved. Coro none. Styles three. Capsule tri- 
coccous, 
1, E, Agallocha, Willd. i iv, 864, 
Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate, serrulate, smooth, 5 Sle 
axillary. 
Arbor exczcans, Rumph. Amb, ii. t. 79, 80. 
Geria of the inhabitants of the Delta of the Ganges, where 
it is very common, growing to the size of a small, crook- 
ed, rather-ill-looking, stunted tree. 
Leaves alternate, about the extremities of the branchlets, 
petioled, ovate and ovate-cordate, smooth on both sides, re- 
motely and slightly serrate, pointed, with two glands at the 
base circumscribed with a purple border, about two inches 
long. Petioles about an inch long, smooth, channelled, Séi- 
pules small, fine-pointed, Male calyx. Aments axillary, often 
owded, cylindric, while young imbricated with fine spiral 
rows of one-flowered, reniform scales, which lengthen by 
age, when the flowers become distinct, and at a small distance 
from each other, Corol no other than five, small squame 
round the base of the filaments. Filaments three. -Anthers 
of two large lobes. Female calyx. Aments solitary, axillary, 
the lower half containing from two to four, or even six, ra- 
ther remote, one-flowered scales, the remaining part imbri- 
cated with numerous, small, neuter scales, Perianth, or corol 
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