818 DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA, Tetranthera. 
distinct tufts of hair upon the nerves on the under side, Pe- 
tioles round, smooth, as long as the leaves. Panicles from 
the naked woody parts of the stem, and large branches, droop- 
ing beautifully.  Bractes three-fold, one-flowered, small, 
caducous, Mae, Calyx two-leaved ; leaflets opposite, oval. 
Petals six; the three interior ones equal, oval. Stamens, in 
the centre is a short thick column, supporting a great number 
of anthers, in the form of a globe. Frmaue. Calyx and 
corol as in the male, The rest as in M. cordifolium. The 
female flowers have not been found. Berries as in the ge- 
nus, about the size and colour of a ripe black cherry, and as 
they are collected in very large, pendulous bunches, their 
Mp peneance is inviting, but their taste is most abominable. 
~ DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA. 
_ TETRANTHERA. (Tomex. Thunb.) 
Nat. ord. Lauri. Juss. 
Involucre four or five-leaved, few-flowered. Mate. 
Calyx one-leaved, entire, or from three to six-parted. Corol 
none, WNectarial glands various. Anthers four-celled. Fr- 
MALE. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded, superior. 
Berries one-seeded, Embryo inverse , without perisperm. 
1. T. nitida, R. 
Leaves short-petioled, sub-cuneiform, obtuse, shining. 
Racemes axillary, short. Involucre four-leaved, five-flowered. 
Calyx from three to six-cleft. Nectary, in the female corol- 
lets, alternately sagittate-cordate, and subulate. Male ennean- 
drous. Berries oblong. 
Kintoni-jam is the yernacular name in the neighbourhood 
of Silhet, where it is indigenous,and grows to bea useful timber 
tree, of very great size, and in the more remote forests which 
cover the Garrow hills, so large as to admit of being made into” 
