766 DIOECIA TETRANDRIA. Nageia. 
Sophee, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigen- 
ous, and grows to the size of a large bush. Flowering time 
December and January, and the fruits ripen in May, when 
they are pickled by the natives, and used as a condiment. 
In its raw state, this fruit though inviting to the eye, is 
too sour to be relished. Branchlets very ramous ; the tender 
shoots considerably hairy. Leaves permanent, alternate, 
approximate, round, every’ part of the apices of the branch- 
lets short-petioled, lanceolar, entire and perfectly smooth ; 
from three to six inches long, by about one broad. Sti- 
pules none. FEMALE, Aments axillary, generally cylindric, 
rarely more than an inch long, considerably villous, many- 
flowered. Scales reniform-cordate, somewhat acuminate, 
sprinkled on the back with small yellow, shining grains, one 
or two-flowered, intermixed with many small fleshy scales 
resembling a perianth. Germ minute, ovate, one-celled, con- 
taining a single ovulum attached to the cell. Styles two, or 
two-cleft. Drupe oval, the size of a prune. Wut oblong, thick 
and very hard, alittle flattened, the two edges rather cntaenel 
andsomewhat sharp, densely clothed with an immense quan- 
tity of fine white hair in pencilliform tufts. The pulp consists 
of innumerable, closely impacted, but distinct, clavate, suc- 
culent, yellow bodies, Seed ovate-oblong. Integument sin- 
gle, membranaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. 
Cotyledons conform to the seed, amygdaline, Radicle su- 
perior, 
 NAGELIA, Gert. 
Male calyx from four to five-leaved. Corol none. Female 
calyx from three to five-leaved. Corol none. Geri three- 
celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment superior (axipendula. ) 
Styles two or three, Drupe one-seeded. Embryo inverse, 
and furnished with a perisperm. : 
N. Putranjiva. R. 
~ Leaves alternate, narrow-oblong, acutely serrulate, Ff lowers 
