‘758 DIOECIA TRIANDRIA, Stilago. 
of the leaves, very downy. Calyx four-lobed, one of the lobes 
smaller ; all downy and ciliate. Corol none. Nectary of 
three circular, concave, smooth lobes, into which the three 
filaments are inserted. Filaments three, much longer than _ 
the calyx. Anthers of two, large, distinct lobes, each with 
a polliniferous pit in the apex. Female spikes axillary, and 
terminal, one, two, or three together, long, slender. Flowers 
numerous, minute, sessile, Bractes minute, one under each 
flower. Calyx, from three to four-lobed, downy. Corol 
none. WVectary saucer-shaped, entire, embracing the base of 
the germ. Germovate, hairy above the nectary, one-celled, 
two ovula in each, attached to the top of the cell... Style 
scarcely any. Stigma of about three emarginate divisions. 
Drupes obliquely oblong, succulent, of the size of a pea, one- 
celled. Nut conform to the drupe, hard, variously sulcated 
both within and without, one-celled, two-valved, Seed soli- 
tary, oval. Perisperm conform tothe seed. Embryo inverse ; 
described and oe by Geriner, vol. i. p. 188, t. 39. 
2 s, Wiel: Willd, iv. 714. 
‘Arboreous. Leaves alternate, entire, lanceolate-oblong, 
polished. Spikes axillary and terminal ; male flowers trian- 
drous, with an abortive column in the centre. 
Bunius sativus. Rumph, Amb, iii, t, 131, the large branch. 
' Noeli-tali. Rheed. Mal, iv. t. 56, which I have already 
quoted for Antidesma alexiteria ; they are the same. 
- The seeds were received from Nepal about seven years 
ago ; now, 1809, the trees raised from them, are from twenty: 
to thirty { feet high, very ramous, with a smooth barked, stout 
trunk. Flowering time the month of March; the fruit Pees 
in September. . : 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, cat ‘uiaeitilt 
long, but rather narrower towards the base, entire, smooth, 
of ashining green on both sides, Stipules ovate-cordate, acu- 
minate, caducous, Spikes in the female solitary, and. termi- 
nal ; in the male axillary, and from one to three or even more 
