Nageia. DIOECIA TETRANDRIA, 767 
triandrous ; filaments more or less coalesced. Drupes ovate. 
Pootrunjeeva the Sanscrit name. Pootra signifies a son 
and jeeva life. Dr. Berry of Madras informs me, the nuts are 
known, and sold in the bazars at that place by the very same 
appellation; and observes that they are strung by parents, 
and put round the necks of their children, to preserve teens 
‘in health. 
Pongolam. Rheed. Mal. vii. t. 59. 
Pootrunjeeva, Pitanjya, Pootranjubkum, Pitanja, are some 
of its numerous Asiatic synonyms. 
Teling. Kudra-juvi. 
In the carpology it is nearly allied to Geertner’s Ni ageia, i. 
191. ¢, 39. 
A native of the various mountainous countries of Coro- 
mande] and Hindoosthan, where it grows to bea large tim- 
ber tree with an erect straight trunk; and a large spreading 
shady head, composed of innumerable expanding branches 
with bifarious branchlets, Flowering time March and April, 
and the fruit ripens in January. The wood is white, close- 
grained and very hard. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifariouss lanceolate-ob- 
long, acutely serrulate, rather obtuse, with the base generally 
3 smooth, shining, waved a little round the margin, 
from three to four inches Yong and one or one and half broad. 
Stipules minute, alternate, villous, MALE, Flowers short- 
peduncled, numerous, minute, yellow, collected into sinall 
globular heads in the axills, sometimes on short, axillary, glo- 
-merate racemes. Calyx five-leaved, or deeply five-parted ; 
segments lanceolate, obtuse, or acute. Corol none. Filaments 
one, two or three ; when one trifid; when two, one of them is 
bifid. Anthers always three, two-lobed, two-celled, Fem Aue. 
Racemes small, simple, from last year’s ramuli; there are 
also single peduncled flowers, scattered about the lower part 
of the present year’s shoots, as in the lower axills thereot. 
"Flowers larger than the male ones, green. Calyx as in 
the male. Corol none. Stamina none. - Germ oval, villous, 
