Tetranihera, DIOECIA ENNRANDAIA, 819 
canoes of full fifty feet in length, for which purpose this tree is 
preferred. Flowering time July and August; the seed ripens 
in April, 
Young shoots smooth and glossy. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, of a lanceolar, cuneiform shape, obtuse, entire, firm 
and glossy, from five to eight incheslong, and two broad. Ra- 
cemes axillary, aud from the leafless branchlets of the former 
year, short, few-flowered. Pedice/s alternate, each ending ina 
minute umbellet of five corollets, embraced by an involucre 
of four, or rarely five, round, concave, smooth leaflets, Calyx 
with a hairy campanulate base, and six-parted border. Corol 
none. Mare. Filaments generally longer than the calyx, 
woolly, and disposed asin the Lauri, Nectarial glands alter- 
nate with the stamina, pedicelled, headed, and woolly. 
Germ none. FEmA.e, Nectarial bodies alternately broad= 
cordate-sagittate, and subulate, but very irregular in shape 
andnumber. Staminanone, Germ superior, embraced by 
the bell of the calyx, one-celled ; ovulum single, attached to 
the top of the cell. Style the length of the calyx. Stigma 
simple. Berries oblong, smooth, succulent, of the size and 
appearance of those of Laurus Cinnamonum, one-celled. 
Seed simple, long-ovate. Integuments two ; the exterior one 
light brown, and of the texture of parchment; the inner one 
membranaceous, Perisperm none. LHmbryo inverse, as in 
the Lauri. 
2. T. apeiala, Corom., pl. ii, N. 147. 
_ Leaves from oval to lanceolate, Jnvolucres four-leaved, 
from eight to twelve-flowered. Calyx scarcely any. Stamens 
about fourteen, 
Tomex sebifera, Willd. ii. p. 840. 
Gaja-pippali. Asiat. Res. iv. p. 303. 
core involucrata, Kénig’s Mss. and Retz, Obs, vi, p. 
27. 
‘Sebifera glutinosa. Louviat: Cochin, Ch. 783. 
- Teling. Narra-alagi, 
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