820 DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA. Teitranthera, 
Beng. Kookoor chita. 
This grows to be a middle sized tree, is a native of the 
mountainous parts of the Circars. lowers in June, when 
the rains begin. 
Leaves scattered near the extremities of the branchlets, 
petioled, oval, obtuse, smooth, above shining, from three 
to five inches long, and from two to three broad. Petioles 
about an inch long, round, smooth, Stipules none. Pedun- 
eles solitary, axillary, as long as the petioles, three or four- 
cleft.* Pedicels rather shorter than the peduncles, clubbed, 
each supporting a small head or umbellet of minute flow- 
ers, Bractes, a small one at the insertion of each pedicel. 
Mare, IJnvolucre four-leaved, containing from eight to 
twelve pedicelled corollets, Leaflets orbicular, concave, 
cadueous. Perianth none. Calyx campanulate; border 
an exterior rim into which the stamina and nectarial glands 
which surround the germ are inserted. Anthers four-lob- 
ed, four-celled, with an oval lid to each cell. .Vectarial 
glands. from six to sixteen, short-pedicelled, oval, peltate, 
alternate with the filaments, but three times shorter. Germ 
none, or small, and abortive. FEMALE FLOWERS on a se- 
parate tree. Umbellets, involucre and calyx as in the 
male, Stamens, the hairy filaments, but instead of anthers 
there are oblong white glands, Nectarial glands as in the 
male, Germ superior, globular, one-celled, containing one 
ovulum attached to the top of the cell, asin the Lauri, to 
which order it belongs. Style twice the length of the fila- 
ments, Stigma torn. Berry globular, smooth, black when 
ripe, and almost dry, one-celled, of the size of a pea, resting 
on the clubbed pedicel, as on a cup like the acorn, Seed 
one, globular. ee ages: and without ee as 
in he Lauri. 
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the peduncles in the male tree, are numerous about the ends of the 
branchlets, and frequently racemed, bearing from ten to fifteen 
flowers. 
